A new book of Cotswold Canal stories has just published by Stroud author and storyteller Fiona Eadie, with illustrations by journalist and artist Tracy Spiers.

For 150 years the Cotswold canals played a vital role in the history of the Stroud area.

Navvies and lock-keepers, lengthsmen and leggers formed part of a vast and numberless company who lived and worked on these waterways.

Their stories are just some of the fascinating tales brought to light in this new collection.

The book, which is published by The History Press, is the perfect read for anyone who knows and loves the Cotswold canals.

For those who live nearby, those who make frequent visits to the waterways, and those who are discovering them for the first time.

They are also for those who know Stroud and other canalside towns of old, who may even remember the canals before they were abandoned, as well as those who have watched or are involved in their skilled and impressive restoration.

Children of the Stroud valleys and further afield who are studying local history, who might like a glimpse of what life was life on the canals in earlier times and who may, with luck, become champions of the canals in the future.

For more details about this fascinating new book about the Cotswold canals visit fionaeadiestoryteller.com