Holidays on Britain’s waterways

Britain’s canals and rivers, once busy with industry,  are now used for more leisurely purposes.

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White Moth: the last of the wherries

For centuries, the wherry reigned supreme on East Anglia's Broads, says Jo Tinsley in Lonely Planet. "Slung low with bricks, sugar beet, coal and timber, these elegant cargo boats ploughed the waterways, until the railways brought their rule to an end." A handful survived, including White Moth, one of the last of the wherry yachts, built in 1915. The 59-foot vessel "would bear me on a slow expedition down the rivers Bure and Ant, from the lively Broads town of Wroxham to Stalham".

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