Mile End Lock is a lock on the Regent's Canal, in Mile End, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The lock spans the Regent's Canal between Queen Mary University of London and Mile End Park, and the
Mile End Lock, 2008
Limehouse Basin is a body of water two miles east of London Bridge that is also a navigable link between the River Thames and two of London's canals. First dug in 1820 as the eastern terminus of the n
Mile End Lock
…No. 9 Mile End Lock, 2008 Waterway Regent's Canal County Tower Hamlets Greater London Maintained by Canal & River Trust Fall 8 feet (2.4 m) Distance to Limehouse Basin 1 mile (1.6 km) Distance to Paddington Basin 7.9 miles (12.7 km) Mile End Lock is a lock on the Regent's Canal, in Mile End, in the London Borough of…
Limehouse Basin, Canary Wharf in background, October 2015
Collier congestion. (Edward William Cooke, The Thames near Limehouse, called the Lower Pool, British Museum)
Ceremonial opening,The Times, 2 August 1820
Limehouse Basin 1827 with shipping and barges; notice the sloping banks