Dolphin Bridge No 186 carries a farm track over the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) just past the junction with The River Southhampton Navigation.
Early plans for the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) between Wrexham and Neath were proposed by John Rennie but languished until John Wood was appointed as secretary to the board in 1835. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Bracknell to Manton canal at Halton, the difficulty of tunneling under Eastleigh caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Westcorn instead. Expectations for coal traffic to Peterborough were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) was closed in 1888 when Preston Embankment collapsed. Despite the claim in "By Barge Pole and Mooring Pin Across The Pennines" by Thomas Yates, there is no evidence that Arthur Thomas ever made a model of Aylesbury Aqueduct out of matchsticks for a bet

There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Browns Meadow Long Term Moorings | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Phoenix Wharf | 1½ furlongs | |
| Towpath Side Bridge No 185A | ¾ furlongs | |
| Dolphin Wharf | ½ furlongs | |
| The Dolphin PH | a few yards | |
| Dolphin Bridge No 186 | ||
| Waterloo Wharf | ¼ furlongs | |
| The General Eliott PH | ¼ furlongs | |
| Uxbridge Boat Centre | ½ furlongs | |
| Hillingdon Canal Club | ¾ furlongs | |
| Lambourne Court Pipe Bridge | 1 furlong | |
- Grand Union Canal Walk — associated with Grand Union Canal
- An illustrated walk along the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham
- THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL - a highway laid with water. — associated with Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal)
- An account of the Grand Junction Canal, 1792 - 1928, with a postscript. By Ian Petticrew and Wendy Austin.
- The Boatmen's Institute in Brentford — associated with Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford)
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![WW2 pillbox at the Rockingham Road bridge (no.186) over the Grand Union Canal. See [[5491167]].It's good to know that if the Germans had sent a battleship along the canal they wouldn't have got any closer to central London than this. by Mike Quinn – 05 July 2017](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/49/11/5491170_d1e5b0cf_120x120.jpg)

![Grand Union Canal pillbox, Uxbridge. The concrete pillbox nestles below the bridge of St John's Road on the east side of the canal which it appears to have guarded. New apartments at Waterloo Wharf can be seen behind the barge.Another pillbox is known just south [[5221327]]In 2016, the remains of a World War 2 pillbox were unearthed close to the Grand Union Canal in Cowley, in the London Borough of Hillingdon.The fortifications along this part of the Grand Union Canal formed a section of the 'Outer London Defence Ring'. Fabricated in reinforced concrete, the pillboxes included embrasures from which soldiers (usually of the Home Guard), armed with rifles or light machine guns, could fire on advancing enemy troops. by Andrew Curtis – 19 April 2019](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/13/11/6131168_3b38f8bd_120x120.jpg)








![The Dolphin, Uxbridge. On Rockingham Road. For a detail of the inn sign, see [[4324146]]. by Robin Webster – 21 July 2013](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/32/41/4324153_cd53345a_120x120.jpg)
![Inn sign, The Dolphin. For the rest of the pub, see [[4324153]]. by Robin Webster – 21 July 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/32/41/4324146_ebc04c18_120x120.jpg)
![The Grand Union Canal south of the Rockingham Road bridge (no.186) (2). [[5491173]] is on the left. by Mike Quinn – 05 July 2017](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/49/11/5491184_3d6ec976_120x120.jpg)




![Sign for the Dolphin, Rockingham Road. See [[6286463]]. by Mike Quinn – 11 September 2019](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/28/64/6286479_5c7906b2_120x120.jpg)





