Grand Union Canal Flight Of 7 Locks And Side Ponds is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Canal locks. 3 related planning applications.

Grand Union Canal Flight Of 7 Locks And Side Ponds

WRENN ID
solitary-foundation-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Canal locks
Source
Historic England listing

Description

WATFORD GRAND UNION CANAL SP56NE 5/283 Flight of 7 locks and side ponds

  • II

Staircase of 4 locks; as part of flight of 7 locks. Early C19, refurbished 1902 (datestones). Retaining walls blue brick with stone coping. Wing walls at top of flight blue brick. Wooden gates, balance beams in steel to some locks. C20 footbridges. The paddle gear is probably 1902 but may incorporate some earlier work. The gear is notable as being still connected to the paddle by wooden rods, mostly replaced elsewhere by metal rods (note from A.T. Conder, Curator, Waterways Museum, Stoke Bruerne). West of the locks is a group of side ponds for conservation of water. The Grand Union Canal was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1810, the Watford section was opened in 1814. (A.H. Faulkner, The Grand Junction Canal, 1972, p.187-8 and p.197).

Listing NGR: SP5928568805

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