Grand Junction Canal
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The Grand Junction Canal is a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches. The mainline was built between 1793 and 1805, to improve
Founder's stock certificate of The Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal for one Share, issued in Daventry on 16 September 1793. William Praed became the first chairman of the canal company.
Berkhamsted station on the London and Birmingham Railway with the Grand Junction Canal on the right-hand side.
Top lock at Stoke Bruerne
Watford
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Watford is a town and non-metropolitan district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne.
Grand Junction Canal
…Canal at Braunston. It also authorised branches to Daventry, the River Nene at Northampton, to the turnpike road (now the A5) at Old Stratford, and to Watford: those to Daventry and Watford were not built. William Jessop was appointed to take charge of construction which started almost immediately from both…
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