Agricultural Bridge No 118 
Address is taken from a point 416 yards away.
Agricultural Bridge No 118 carries a farm track over the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford).
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

Mooring here is good (a nice place to moor), piling suitable for hooks. Mooring is on the stretch before the bridge coming from Church Lock direction .
There is a bridge here which takes a track over the canal.
| The Grove Lock PH | 1 mile, 6¼ furlongs | |
| Grove Lock No 28 | 1 mile, 6 furlongs | |
| Grove Lock Marina | 1 mile, 5¾ furlongs | |
| Church Lock Bridge No 116 | 1 mile, 2 furlongs | |
| Church Lock No 29 | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Agricultural Bridge No 118 | ||
| Slapton Lock No 30 | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Slapton Wharf | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Slapton Bridge No 120 | 5 furlongs | |
| Slapton Winding Hole | 5 furlongs | |
| Horton Lock Bridge No 121 | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
- 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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![Grand Union Canal - Bridge No 118. Travel along the Grand Union Canal.North: [[1517855]].[[1517861]].You are Here.[[1511452]].South: [[1511464]].See also [[1445982]]. by Chris Reynolds – 04 October 2009](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/52/20/1522038_bcc81e22_120x120.jpg)


![Sodden ground. This is the impromptu stream that barred my access to the bridge seen in the background (which is in the adjacent southerly gridsquare) as mentioned in [[[325750]]] by Rob Farrow – 31 January 2007](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/photos/32/57/325755_27be260e_120x120.jpg)
![Marshy field near Grand Union Canal. I'd intended to follow the track that went over the bridge marked near this point then follow it into the SP9221 gridsquare - however the track effectively stopped at a gate by the stream, and it detiorated into a rather marshy footpath. This got worse as the path crossed what was effectively a stream across the field (see [[[325755]]]) and the whole area was very marshy and I was not suitably shod to traverse it. Luckily by carrying on parallel to this stream I managed to get into the desired square in this field. The Grand Union Canal lies ahead and to the left. by Rob Farrow – 31 January 2007](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/32/57/325750_25a40b94_120x120.jpg)




![Streams meet. The stream seen going under a footbridge in [[[326812]]] is seen here being joined by an unmarked streamlet in the field immediately on the other side of the stile seen in that photo. This water is draining from the marshy field seen in [[[325750]]] & [[[325755]]]. by Rob Farrow – 31 January 2007](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/32/68/326820_1929f467_120x120.jpg)
![Stream & Stile. The track from Slapton to this little bridge over a stream is pretty good - but that all changes once you cross the stile and have to pick your way through a very marshy field ! (see [[[325755]]] for an example). This stream seems to have originated from a sluice on the Grand Union Canal at SP92672040 where](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/32/68/326812_5706ac90_120x120.jpg)


![Grand Union Canal: Reach in Slapton (3). This has to be one of the most remote and featureless reaches along the whole Grand Union Canal, without a single public road in the grid square. The canal towpath is one of the very few ways that the public can access it. So featureless is it that the photographer had to work out where the three photos were taken by reviewing the time stamps on the camera files, and proportioning the time gaps against the distance cruised between the last feature [[3696937]] and the next [[3697614]], assuming a steady rate, and then identifying which bushes were in sight on the image and visible on the satellite imagery!This is very much](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/69/75/3697571_13e7d08d_120x120.jpg)




![Grand Union Canal: Reach in Slapton (2). This has to be one of the most remote and featureless reaches along the whole Grand Union Canal, without a single public road in the grid square. The canal towpath is one of the very few ways that the public can access it. So featureless is it that the photographer had to work out where the three photos were taken by reviewing the time stamps on the camera files, and proportioning the time gaps against the distance cruised between the last feature [[3696937]] and the next [[3697614]], assuming a steady rate, and then identifying which bushes were in sight on the image and visible on the satellite imagery!This is very much](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/69/75/3697550_af7946dc_120x120.jpg)

![Grand Union Canal – North of Slapton Lock. Travel along the Grand Union Canal.North: [[1522038]].You are Here.South: [[1511464]].View looking north from Slapton Lock. by Chris Reynolds – 28 September 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/51/14/1511452_becef8ed_120x120.jpg)
