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Description: | The canal was authorised to be constructed as a branch of the Grand Junction Canal in 1879 and was developed to allow barges to transport bricks, sand and gravel from the Slough area to London, where major building construction programmes were in progress. The Duke of Northumberland at first opposed the building of the canal on the grounds that it would affect water supplies to the river Colne. The canal was terminated at Stoke Poges Road in Slough in order to avoid land belonging to Eton College and the Duke of Leeds. The canal is approximately 5 miles in length.
The Grand Junction was one of the leading inland waterway companies and the Grand Junction Canal dates back to 1793. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Canals ; Narrowboats Iver Boat Yard ; Grand Union Canal ; Slough arm ; Grand Junction Canal ; Boat yards ; | Temporal: | start=1879-01-01; end=2008-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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