Oxford Canal (Northern Section) – Gazetteer

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The Oxford Canal (Northern Section) is part of the Oxford Canal and is made up of the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Rugby Wharf Arm), the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Wyken Arm), the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Stretton Arm) and the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Main Line).

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust

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Cruising the Oxford canal (with one eye on its history)

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The Oxford Canal

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External websites

Oxford Canal Walk - Part One - Oxford to Thrupp - YouTube — associated with Oxford Canal: A walk along the Oxford Canal (Southern Section) from Oxford to Thrupp Wide

Wikipedia

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The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Bedworth (between Coventry and Nuneaton on the Coventry Canal) via Banbury and Rugby. Completed in 1790, it connects to the River Thames at Oxford and is integrated with the Grand Union Canal—combined for 5 miles (8 km) close to the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the-Hill, a canal which soon after construction superseded much of its traffic.

The canal was for about 15 years the main canal artery of trade between the Midlands and London; it retained importance in its local county economies and that of Berkshire. Today the canal is frequently used for weekend and holiday narrowboat pleasure boating.

The Oxford Canal traverses Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and east Warwickshire through broad, shallow valleys and lightly rolling hills; resembling the bulk of the Grand Union Canal and its branches, much of the landscape is similar to the those of the Llangollen and Lancaster canals. It has frequent wharves and public houses, particularly if including the parts of the Grand Union Canal immediately adjoining. North of about a third of its distance, namely from Napton, the canal's route northeast and then northwest forms part of the Warwickshire ring. At its southern extremity it forms a waterway circuit within Oxford known as the Four Rivers.

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[Grand Union Canal] Grand Union in 1932 Erewash Canal – bought by the Grand Union in 1932 A five/mile (eight-km) section of the Oxford Canal forms the main line of the Grand [Oxford] navigation to Oxford. Iffley Lock and Osney Lock lie within the bounds of the city. In the 18th century the Oxford Canal was built to connect Oxford with the [Worcester College, Oxford] Stirling Prize. The Canal Building sits next to the north entrance to the college and, as the name suggests, beside the Oxford Canal. It houses 50 students [Cumberland and Oxford Canal] Cumberland and Oxford Canal was opened in 1832 to connect the largest lakes of southern Maine with the seaport of Portland, Maine. The canal followed the [Jericho, Oxford] is an historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton [Lyra's Oxford] Eagle Ironworks, the Oxford Canal, the Fell Press and the Oratory of St Barnabas the Chymist, all in the Jericho area of Lyra's Oxford), a postcard from [Great Canal Journeys] Great Canal Journeys is a Channel 4 television series in which husband and wife Timothy West and Prunella Scales take canal barge and narrowboat trips [Canal Street, Oxford] Canal Street is a residential street in Jericho, an inner suburb of Oxford, England, to the northwest of the city centre. The annual Jericho Street Fair [Brownsover] Brownsover Community Infants School. The Oxford Canal runs through the Brownsover area. The original canal was built in the late 18th century, and was

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