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	Regent's Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just to the north of central London.
		In 1929 the companies of the Regent's Canal, the Grand Junction Canal, and the Warwick Canals merged to become the
		Prince Regent to redevelop a large area of central north London &; as a result, the Regent& Canal was included in the scheme, running for part of its distance along the northern edge of Regent's Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regent's_Canal

	The Regents Canal History
		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.
		The Regent's Canal Company bought the canal assets of the other two parties and the new enlarged undertaking was renamed as the Grand Union Canal Company.
		The Canal was short of water supplies and it was necessary to dam the river Brent to create a reservoir to provide them, in 1835, extended in 1837 and 1854.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/regents.htm (1555 words)

	Regent
		Regent's Canal The Regent's Canal is a Thames in east London.
		Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia (1794) The Regent Honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) is an forests.
		Regent, North Dakota Regent is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 211.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/regent.html (1555 words)

	The Regents Canal History
		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.
		The Canal was short of water supplies and it was necessary to dam the river Brent to create a reservoir to provide them, in 1835, extended in 1837 and 1854.
		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.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/regents.htm (1555 words)

	Regent's Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Running through the northern end of the park is Regent's Canal which connects the Grand Union Canal to the former London Docks.
		Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.
		Regent Park is also the name of a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, known as the first major social housing project in Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regents_Park (1024 words)

	Canal Museums London CanalMuseum
		The London Canal Museum is housed in a building which was built in the 1860's as an ice warehouse adjoining Battlebridge basin on the Regent's Canal.
		The story of London's canals, the people who worked and lived on the boats, and the horses which pulled their boats is told, and we take you back to 1924 with our video of archive film of a journey through London on the Regent's Canal.
		London Canal Museum Based on the Regents Canal in London.
	www.canaljunction.com /muslcm.htm (1024 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.
		Homer approached the architect John Nash, who was building Regent's Park.
		Boat trips are regularly available especially between Camden and the picturesque Little Venice in west London where the canal meets the Grand Junction near Paddington.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/regents.htm (1024 words)

	Regent's Park, London NW1, tourist information from TourUK
		Nash wanted the Regent's Canal to run through the park but was persuaded that the bad language of the bargees would offend the refined residents of the area.
		The Outer Circle, the main road running around the park, is over 2 miles long, bordered to the north by Regent's Canal, to the west and east by Palladian mansions and to the south by Nash's Park Crescent and the Marylebone Road.
		As Prince Regent was busy with his plans for Buckingham Palace, the palace in Regent's Park was never built.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_parks_gardens/regents_park1.htm (310 words)

	(GCHG54) Regent's Canal #4 by perthos- Maintained by Jonnytuna
		Having missed access to the canal further west for RC#5, this was my first Regent's Canal cache and it was a fairly quick an' easy one, found by sense of smell.
		Regent's Canal was constructed in the early 1800s to link the Grand Junction Canal's Paddington Arm with the River Thames at Limehouse Basin in the Docklands.
		Note that the Canal Museum is the small brown building in the middle of the photo, directly above the boat that says "Lynx", in white letters on a blue background.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b410f840-0a9b-439c-9c2f-bc46f4b98a8f (310 words)

	Grand Union Canal
		Above right is the busy stretch of the Regent's Canal in London leading to Islington Tunnel and then Regent's Park and the London Zoo.
		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.
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	www.canaljunction.com /canal/grand_union.htm (654 words)

	IWA London Region Walks
		The Regent's Canal was a successful and profitable one, carrying goods for the export and import trade of London Docks as well as traffic between London and the Midlands.
		Our walks cover the eight-and-a-half miles of the Regent's Canal in four sections as listed below.
		Before this date the Grand Junction Canal had been built to make a direct connection from the Midlands to London, joining the Thames at Brentford, west of London, and with a branch to Paddington.
	www.waterways.org.uk /region/london_web/walks.htm (654 words)

	Route 8: Lea Valley
		Eventually the Regent's Canal bought it and from 28th October 1857 onwards it became a branch of the Regent's Canal and from 1929, part of the Grand Union system.
		Victoria Park was created in 1842 to a design by James Pennethorne and is of considerable historical interest as the first Victorian park to be owned by the public and designed for recreational use.
		The run should be done during daylight hours as it is totally dark along the river after sunset and Victoria Park closes from dusk to dawn.
	www.serpentine.org.uk /routes/08 (1112 words)

	The Regents Canal History
		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.
		The Regent's Canal Act was passed in 1812 and the company was formed to build and operate it.
		The Regent's Canal Company bought the canal assets of the other two parties and the new enlarged undertaking was renamed as the Grand Union Canal Company.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/regents.htm (1555 words)

	Grand Union Canal
		The Paddington Arm and Regents Canal in London go close to the city centre, through Regent's Park and London Zoo to meet the Thames again at Limehouse Basin.
		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.
		The canal often seems just as busy as the city roads it runs alongside!
	www.canaljunction.com /cgu.htm (574 words)

	Towpath Walks from London Canal Museum
		The towpath walk route is via local streets to join the Regent's Canal at Caledonian Road from which point we make a short detour to visit the west portal of Islington tunnel.
		The Wapwalk is a guided walk on the same section of canal but walking west to east, from Camden to the museum.
		The canal walk lasts about 90 minutes and ends up at Camden, London's famous market, which you can explore when we arrive (Not evening walks).
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /whatson/walks.htm (574 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hertford Union Canal
		Like its 1766 predecessor, the Limehouse Cut, the Hertford Union Canal was intended to provide a straight short-cut between the River Thames and the River Lea Navigation, utilising a short stretch of the Regent's Canal.
		1.5km) of canal in the London Borough of Hackney in north-east London.
		Promoted by Sir George Duckett and authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1824, it opened in 1830 and was for some years known as Duckett's Canal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hertford-Union-Canal (186 words)

	Grand Union Canal Walk - Paths Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		From Paddington eastwards the canal continues as the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin (13km/8 miles), and this route also provides a towpath walk; although not signed as the Grand Union Canal, with a street-based link avoiding the Islington tunnel indicated by pavement plaques.
		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.
		Leicester Line (sometimes called the Old Grand Union Canal) connects Watford Gap with Langley Mill, Heanor (126.5km/79 miles), with a branch from Foxton to Market Harborough (8km/5 miles).
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/grandunioncanal.html (1230 words)

	London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		London also has several canals, including the Regent's Canal which links the Thames to the Grand Union Canal and thus to the waterway network across much of England.
		These canals are no longer used to transport goods, but they are popular with leisure cruisers.
		The principal facade of Buckingham Palace was designed in 1850 by Edward Blore and redesigned in 1913 by Sir Aston Webb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London (1230 words)

	Grand Union Canal Walk - Paths Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		From Paddington eastwards the canal continues as the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin (13km/8 miles), and this route also provides a towpath walk; although not signed as the Grand Union Canal, with a street-based link avoiding the Islington tunnel indicated by pavement plaques.
		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.
		Leicester Line (sometimes called the Old Grand Union Canal) connects Watford Gap with Langley Mill, Heanor (126.5km/79 miles), with a branch from Foxton to Market Harborough (8km/5 miles).
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/grandunioncanal.html (1230 words)

	Grand Union Canal Walk - Paths Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		From Paddington eastwards the canal continues as the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin (13km/8 miles), and this route also provides a towpath walk; although not signed as the Grand Union Canal, with a street-based link avoiding the Islington tunnel indicated by pavement plaques.
		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.
		The canal began as the Grand Junction Canal, opened in 1805 to link the river Thames with the Oxford Canal at Braunston.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/grandunioncanal.html (1315 words)

	Granny Buttons
		One man drowned in the Rochdale Canal (oh no, not again!), and another met his end in the Regent's Canal near Mile End Park.
		The nearest they've got is a press release from two years ago headlined 'Green canal scheme set to transform Nantwich', which is about setting up the very sort of 'green scheme' that the protesters want to preserve, although it's hard to tell, what with the obfuscation of formal press releases.
		The canals were built to carry money from A to B, where A and B are the wharves to load and unload the money.
	www.grannybuttons.com (6674 words)

	London Canal Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		London Canal Museum is situated in the King's Cross area of London, England, beside Battlebridge Basin on the Regent's Canal.
		The building was constructed around 1860 as a warehouse for ice which was imported from Norway by ship and canal barge.
		London Canal Museum - the official website of the London Canal Museum
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Canal_Museum (6674 words)

	Grand Union Canal Walk - Paths Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		From Paddington eastwards the canal continues as the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin (13km/8 miles), and this route also provides a towpath walk; although not signed as the Grand Union Canal, with a street-based link avoiding the Islington tunnel indicated by pavement plaques.
		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.
		The canal began as the Grand Junction Canal, opened in 1805 to link the river Thames with the Oxford Canal at Braunston.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/grandunioncanal.html (1315 words)

	Waterway Canal and Museum Links
		Angel Canal Festival - The annual September waterside event held beside the Regent's Canal in Islington.
		The Ragged School Museum - by the canal in east London - a museum of 19th century life and education in East London.
		The Railway and Canal Historical Societ y - an organisation for people with an interest in railway and canal history.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /links.htm (1315 words)

	Waterway Canal and Museum Links
		Angel Canal Festival- The annual September waterside event held beside the Regent's Canal in Islington.
		The Ragged School Museum - by the canal in east London - a museum of 19th century life and education in East London.
		The Railway and Canal Historical Society - an organisation for people with an interest in railway and canal history.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /links.htm (1819 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Grand Union Canal: Fenny Stratford to the Thames Map 3 (Inland Waterways of Britain): Books
		Side two has canal coverage from Kings Langley to the River Thames including the Grand Union Main Line to the Thames at Brentford, the Slough Arm, the Paddington Arm and Regent's Canal to the Thames at Limehouse, the Hertford Union Canal, Limehouse Cut and the final part of the River Lee Navigation.
		Canal coverage from the centre of Birmingham where the Grand Union Canal joins the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations to Braunston and the junction with the North Oxford Canal.
		Canal coverage from Braunston to Fenny Stratford (Milton Keynes) including the Northampton Arm and its junction with the River Nene Navigation, the unnavigable branch arm to Buckingham and the beginning of the Grand Union Canal Leicester Line at Norton Junction.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0863511430 (793 words)

	The Canal Shop Company
		Also included is an Alex Prowse print 'Maida Hill Tunnel, The Regent's Canal', and a Nauticalia catalogue.
		Also included - 16 page supplement looking back at the important part that canals once played in the history of Burton upon Trent, and earlier plans to improve them for the future.
	www.canalshop.co.uk /acatalog/Canal_Shop_Catalogue_Magazines_57.html (157 words)

	Regents Park London
		On the north side is the London Zoo, Regents Canal and Camden Town and on the east side is London’s Central Islamic Center and Mosque.
		Regents Park has the largest open area for sports in London and is also home to Regent’s College.
		In 1811 George IV (Previously Prince Regent) commissioned a dear friend and architectural genius, John Nash, to redesign the Park.
	www.travellondon.com /templates/parksT24/RegentsPark.html (161 words)

	London Canal Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
		Canal life ; Canal costume ; Canal art ; Lifting, handling, weighing ; Bantam Tug ; The ice trade & ice wells ; Horse Power - London's working horses ; The Regent's Canal ; Boats
		Museum of London's canals, their people, cargoes and the horses which pulled their boats.
		Our collection includes "roses and castles" canal art and other decorative art, lifting handling and weighing equipment for cargo, horse care equipment, and the working Bantam IV tug which is moored outside.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/SE000031.html (161 words)

	Wey & Arun Canal - Wey-South 120
		The Museum is open every day, except Mondays, from 10.00am until 4.30pm, with the latest time of admission being 3.45pm, and is sited beside the Regent’s Canal at Battlebridge Basin.
		The Trust should ensure that our future water management on the restored canal is as effective as possible with minimal leakage and maximum usage and access by the public so that our case for water abstraction is sustainable.
		So professional was all this work that EN was won over by our transformation and care of the canal’s environment, we having created a more diverse habitat whilst retaining the important aspects of the original.
	www.weyandarun.co.uk /ws120-2.htm (161 words)

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