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This fascinating programme explores every aspect of the South Oxford Canal. You'll meet colourful characters, visit picture postcard villages, and delve into local history and items of interest. You'll be taken around Banbury, and you'll be able to dip in to a guided walking tour of the City of Oxford itself, taking a look right inside some of the colleges. But always, you'll keep coming back to the boats as you meander through the richly varied Cotswold countryside from Napton Junction to Oxford.

Built in the 18th century, this is a typical Brindley canal at it twists and turns, slavishly following the contour lines. All part of its charm for us today of course, but how the commercial boatmen must have cursed its directionless curves. It formed part of the original "Grand Cross", linking the great rivers of England and played an enormously important role in the Industrial Revolution. As a main transport artery it carried coal and manufactured goods from the Midlands to Oxford, and via the Thames to London.