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	Grand Junction Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grand Junction Canal was a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches.
		The canal was bought by the Regent's Canal and from 1 January 1929 formed part of the mainline of the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham.
		The Grand Junction's original act in 1793 authorised branches to Daventry, the River Nene at Northampton, to the turnpike road at Old Stratford (north-west of the modern Milton Keynes), and to Watford in Hertfordshire: those to Daventry and Watford were not built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Junction_Canal (1999 words)

	Grand Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Grand Union Canal was born out of frustration over the length and time taken to travel between the fast growing city of Birmingham and the country's capital, London.
		In June notices were posted on the canal instructing that all locks should be kept clear as troops on route for Liverpool would use the Grand Junction Canal from Blisworth (although the canal was not officially opened for another 2 years).
		The Grand Union Canal had been built on incredibly hilly terrain necessitating a long winding course with two large lock flights at either end and there were two tunnels in the middle of the route.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/grandunion.htm (6696 words)

	The Grand Junction Canal
		Although the somewhat circuitous route to Birmingham via the river Thames and the Oxford Canal came first, it was the Grand Junction Canal which really provided the transport infrastructure to bring goods from the industrial conurbations of the north and midlands to the capital.
		The Grand Junction was a busy route throughout its commercial life, although the struggle of competition with the railways was a constant problem from the mid 19th Century onwards.
		Nationalised along with other canals in 1948, the Grand Junction route was one of the last in Britain to keep commercial traffic alive, albeit in steep decline through the 1950's when road transport developed considerably.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/grandjun.htm (867 words)

	Wendover Arm Trust - The Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal
		The Grand Union (formerly the Grand Junction) canal, as its name implies, was designed to be part of a system of canals linking with each other rather than a single canal.
		As this stretch of water was to supply the needs of the canal on both sides of the summit it became imperative to find sufficient water; the first Act of Parliament for the canal stated the need for a feeder from the north side of the Chiltern Hills behind Wendover to the summit level.
		Further repairs saw the lining of the leaking parts of the canal with a layer of asphalt two and a half inches thick, in preference to repuddling with clay, a task which was completed by 1858.
	www.wendoverarmtrust.co.uk /TheArm/TheArm.html (673 words)

	THE HISTORY OF THE BIRMINGHAM WARWICK CANAL 1793
		This canal was called the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal and was opened on the 1st February, 1844.
		In 1917 the three Warwick Canals, the Warwick and Birmingham, Warwick Napton, and Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal, put themselves under the management of one joint Committee, Finally, they were sold to the Regents Canal Co. on 1st January, 1929 and became part of the new Grand Union Canal Company.
		The first step towards the creation of the Grand Union was taken in 1925, when the Grand Junction sought a report from the engineer of the Warwick canals on the cost of putting them in order.
	aghs.virtualbrum.co.uk /transhist/canalhist.htm (2544 words)

	The Regents Canal History
		The Regent's Canal was built to link the Grand Junction Canal's Paddington Arm, which opened in 1801, with the Thames at Limehouse.
		The year was marked by fighting between canal workers and the gardeners employed by landowner Mr Agar, and by the embeszzlement of funds by Homer, the Superintendant.
		The Regent's Canal purchased the canal assets of the Grand Junction Canal, and of the Warwick canals, and the enlarged concern became called the Grand Union Canal.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/regents.htm (1555 words)

	Grand Union Canal-Knowle Locks
		The original Grand Junction Canal was built in the early 18th century and considerably reduced the traveling time from Braunston in Rugby to Brentford in London.
		It was the intention of the Grand Junction company to influence a 70-ton barge standard.
		An act of Parliament was passed for the construction of the Stratford upon Avon canal in 1793.This canal was to start at Kings Norton on the Worcester to Birmingham canal and continue to its present Junction in Stratford where it joins the Avon.
	www.ianb10.bravepages.com /canals/knowle.htm (387 words)

	ipedia.com: Regent's Canal Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		First proposed by Thomas Homer in 1802 as a link from the Paddington arm of the then Grand Junction Canal (opened in 1801) with the River Thames at Limehouse, it was built during the early 19th century after an Act of Parliament was passed in 1812.
		By this time, the canal's importance for commercial traffic was dwindling, and by the 1960s commercial vessels had almost ceased to operate — railway and road transport taking over.
		The Regent's Canal forms a junction with the old Grand Junction Canal at Little Venice, a short distance north of Paddington Basin.
	www.ipedia.com /regent_s_canal.html (427 words)

	Reed Hotel Boats
		This section was built as the Grand Junction canal, it runs from Brentford on the Western edge of London north west to Braunston Northamptonshire.
		Passing King's Norton Junction with the Stratford canal the Grand Union heads towards Birmingham, climbing the 5 Knowle locks and for the last 7 miles passing through the suburbs of Birmingham till it drops down the 5 Camp Hill locks to finish at Bordesley junction.
		By 1797 the southern section of the Grand Junction Canal was extended to Hemel Hempstead.
	www.reedboats.co.uk /routes/canals/grm.html (2805 words)

	Colorado River Salinity Control Program--Grand Valley, Colorado
		The purpose of the Grand Valley Unit is to reduce the estimated 580,000 tons per year of salt added to the Colorado River as a result of irrigation system seepage and agricultural practices in the valley.
		The Federally-owned Grand Valley Project is operated by the Grand Valley Water User´s Association on the north side of the Colorado River and by the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District on the south side of the Colorado River and east of the Gunnison River.
		Analysis of the monitoring data indicated that canal and lateral seepage was decreased by approximately 5,700 acre-feet and salt loading to the Colorado River decreased by approximately 21,900 tons, supporting recommendations for initiating construction of Stage Two.
	www.usbr.gov /dataweb/html/grandvalley2.html (1508 words)

	The Tame Valley Canal
		The canal, which was opened in 1844 runs for 81/2 miles from the Tame Valley Junction on the Walsall canal to Salford Junction just beneath the Graverley Hill interchange or Spaghetti Junction as it is known to the locals.
		Here it meets with the Birmingham and Fazeley canal coming from Birmingham and Farmers bridge locks and the Birmingham and Warwick Junction canal which was the route down to London via the Grand Junction canal.
		This canal was opened in 1847 also by the BCN and linked onto the Daw End canal at Longwood Junction and then on to the Wryley and Essington canal at Catshill in Brownhills.
	upthecut.users.btopenworld.com /canals2/tame.htm (486 words)

	History
		The first section of the Grand Junction Canal in this area (later the Grand Union Canal) was opened in 1794.
		Canals were the motorways of their time and the rapid spread of the network was dubbed ‘canal mania’.
		The Hanwell Flight is a "staircase" which raises the canal 53 feet in just a third of a mile.
	www.ealing-web.com /canal_history.htm (478 words)

	Grand Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A 2½ mile narrow canal with 6 locks from the Tame Valley Canal at Salford Junction to Bordesley Junction.
		Tour of the Grand Junction by J Hassell, Edition: 1st edition 151 pages, Published by Published by the author 1819 "Illustrated in a series of engravings; with an historical and topographical description of those parts of the counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire, through which the Canal passes." Contains 24 coloured aquatints.
		The 8¾ mile canal and tramroad Charnwood Forest branch was disused by 1799 and abandoned in 1848.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Grand-Union-Canal.html (1840 words)

	Grand Union Canal Walk - Paths Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		The canal began as the Grand Junction Canal, opened in 1805 to link the river Thames with the Oxford Canal at Braunston.
		The whole system, including various 'arms' or branches, was renamed the Grand Union in 1929, and the towpath was signed as a walking route in the early 1990s.
		In the north, the canal itself ends at Salford (Spaghetti) Junction, but the signed walk turns off to Gas Street Basin in central Birmingham where it connects with the dense canal network of the west Midlands.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/grandunioncanal.html (1323 words)

	Hatton Locks - Grand Union Canal
		The Warwick and Birmingham canal was started in 1793 and amalgamated with other canal companies in 1929 to form what we know as today as the Grand Union Canal.
		The canal finally opened in 1800 and was 22 miles in length with 21 locks here at Hatton with 6 at Knowle and 6 at Camp Hill in Birmingham.
		Until 1934 this canal was a narrow canal but with the amount of coal merchants in nearby Saltisford Basin and the warehouses of Pickfords, Fellows Morton and Clayton in Warwick there was a decision undertook to widen the canal.
	www.starling101.btinternet.co.uk /canals/hatton.htm (296 words)

	Grand Waterways Voyages - Canal Narrowboat Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These two canals were enemies in the early years and boats had to be unloaded on one side of the bar and reloaded on the other so that goods could proceed on their journey.
		The Grand Junction Canal later known as the Grand Union Canal was opened in 1780 but had two major tunnels at Blisworth (opened 1805) and Braunston (opened 1796).
		You pass the defunct Huddlesford Junction with the Lichfield Canal (soon to be restored to its former glory).
	www.gwvboats.co.uk /routes.htm (1380 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The village of Gayton sits high on the hillside and is located within half a mile of the Grand Union Canal,the main canal running North-South from Birmingham to London.
		This section of the originally named Grand Junction Canal from Weedon to Blisworth was opened in the late summer of l796, Blisworth becoming a busy inland port whilst waiting for the opening of the tunnel in l805.
		There is now a Marina off Gayton Junction that is situated on the Northampton Arm of the Grand Union canal close to its junction with the mainline, together with a local Boatyard and Marine Services on Gayton Junction itself providing visiting boaters a range of services.
	www.gayton-northants.co.uk /about_gayton/canal.html (262 words)

	Milton Keynes - Leisure Route - Canal - MKWeb
		The traditional atmosphere of the canal has remained, and it has become a perfect cruising route for a new generation of boats.
		The canal is also an ideal refuse for wildlife, rabbits and water voles are common and early in the morning you may see a fox returning from a night's hunting.
		Linford Wharf is at the junction of the Grand Union and the former Newport Pagnell Canal.
	www.mkweb.co.uk /Canal/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=1742 (603 words)

	Tower Hamlets On-Line: Regent's Canal
		The Regent's Canal was built to facilitate the transport of raw materials and finished goods to and from factories in London.
		These were then transported up the Regent's Canal and often along the canal network to other parts of the country.
		Since that time the city has rapidly expanded and the canal now lies not far from the urban centre.
	www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /thol/canal/network_3.shtml (174 words)

	Buckingham Arm Canal
		A Canal is Born: Plans for the Grand Junction Canal were made public in the April of 1792 in a review in the Northampton Mercury.
		The outcome of this meeting was to apply for an Act of Parliament to enable the canal to be built.
		The canal was built to these dimension to enable it to be used by Thames or Trent barges.
	clutch.open.ac.uk /schools/brooksward01/History.html (253 words)

	Blisworth Tunnel photo - Dave Wright photos at pbase.com
		The Grand Junction Canal canal was up and running by 1800, but for first five years all cargoes had to be laboriously 'transhipped' into carts for a horse-drawn journey over Blisworth Hill.
		The Grand Junction Canal quickly became one of the main transport arteries of Georgian England, carrying supplies for Nelson’s ships and Wellington’s army in the war against Napoleonic France.
		One of the highlights of their cruise was to be the journey through Blisworth Tunnel, at that time the longest open canal tunnel.
	www.pbase.com /image/40942357 (661 words)

	perivale.co.uk - grand union canal, perivale, greenford, middlesex
		On the South side of the canal is
		One of their great advantages was that a horse-drawn barge could bear a 50 ton load, whilst a horse and cart could only carry 300 lbs.The canal brought industry to what was then a rural area.
		In the 1880’s hay was cut in the canalside meadows and taken into London.
	www.perivale.co.uk /grand-union-canal.htm (303 words)

	Grand Union Canal
		The Leicester section is interesting and varied, leaving the main line at Norton Junction south of Braunston and joining the River Trent near Kegworth.
		The canal section before Leicester is very rural at times and has two tunnels at Crick and Husband's Bosworth and staircase locks at Watford and Foxton.
		OTHER CANALS Ashton Canal, Basingstoke Canal, BCN, Bridgewater Canal, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Coventry Canal, Grand Union Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Kennet and Avon Canal, Lancaster Canal, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Llangollen Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Mon.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/grand_union.htm (537 words)

	Husbands Bosworth - Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal was to have been the last link between London and the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coalfields.
		The Union Canal, as the new canal became known, was to link the navigable river Soar at Leicester with the river Nene at Northampton, rising out of the Nene valley to join the Grand Junction Canal at Gayton.
		This 1¾ mile long branch of the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal was built as a navigable feeder to the 20 mile long summit level, bringing water supplies from Welford, Sulby, and Naseby reservoirs.
	www.husbandsbosworth.info /canal.html (760 words)

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