Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Old Stratford Arm) – Gazetteer

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The Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Old Stratford Arm) is a narrow canal and is part of the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal). It runs for 1 furlong from Junction with Old Stratford Arm (where it joins the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford)) to Site of Bridge 1 and End of Navigation (which is a dead end).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 7 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust

Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust 0303 040 4040
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/
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Grand Junction Canal

Junction with Old Stratford Arm
Old Stratford Arm Private Moorings	½ furlongs	0 locks
Site of Bridge 1 and End of Navigation	1 furlong	0 locks

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External websites

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.
Buckingham Canal Society — associated with Junction with Old Stratford Arm: Leading restoration of the canal to Buckingham

Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Grand Union Canal

The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. Its main line starts in London and ends in Birmingham, stretching for 137 miles (220 km) with 166 locks. It has arms to places including Leicester, Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover and Northampton.

The Grand Union Canal was also the original name for part of what is now part of the Leicester Line of the modern Grand Union: this latter is now generally referred to as the Old Grand Union Canal to avoid ambiguity.

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[Grand Union Canal (old)] The Grand Union Canal was a canal in England from Foxton, Leicestershire on the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal to Norton Junction, close [Oxford Canal] 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 [Shropshire Union Canal] The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches [Regent's Canal] Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England. It provides a link from the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, 550 yards [Grand Junction Canal] In 1927 the canal was bought by the Regent's Canal Company and, since 1 January 1929, has formed the southern half of the Grand Union Main Line from [Little Venice] England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin. The junction forms [List of canals of the United Kingdom] country's waterways via the Great Ouse. Grand Union Canal (Slough Branch): Extending Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal south to join the River Thames. Maidenhead [Hertford Union Canal] Regents Canal Company in 1857, and became part of the Grand Union Canal in 1927. Like its 1766 predecessor, the Limehouse Cut, the Hertford Union Canal was [Paddington] start-point of an improved Harrow Road and an arm of the Grand Junction Canal (Grand Union Canal); these remain. In the 19th century the part of the parish

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