Packet Boat Marina is on the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Slough Arm) near to Oldfield.
Early plans for the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Slough Arm) between Trafford and Renfrewshire were proposed by Peter Thomas but languished until Benjamin Outram was appointed as secretary to the board in 1782. Expectations for coal traffic to St Helens were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The canal between Northfield and Braintree was lost by the building of the M3 Motorway in 1972. According to Henry Green's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Salisbury Boat Lift is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

Facilities: gas for sale, coal for sale and boater-operated pump-out.
You can wind here.
| Cowley Peachey Junction | ¾ furlongs | |
| Packet Boat Marina | ||
| Marina Footbridge No 0 | ¼ furlongs | |
| Fray's Aqueduct | ¾ furlongs | |
| Trouts Lane Aqueduct | 2 furlongs | |
| Footbridge No 1 | 3 furlongs | |
| River Colne Aqueduct | 3¼ 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.
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![Sign for bridge zero, Slough Arm, Grand Union Canal. See [[2159628]] for photo of the bridge by the Packet Boat Marina. by David Hawgood – 07 November 2010](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/15/96/2159681_aeb8f02f_120x120.jpg)




![Bridge to Slough Arm, Grand Union Canal. The footbridge gives access from the towpath of the Grand Union Canal to that along its Slough Arm, straight ahead in the photo. See [[422229]] for a view in January 1977 - mainly different in this spring photo with leaves on the trees looking more pleasant than the earlier one in winter with bare branches. by David Hawgood – 18 May 2008](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/81/57/815712_0e21f287_120x120.jpg)












