Berkhamsted, bridge 141
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Berkhamsted, bridge 141
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 10 Apr 2010
This is looking north-west. The plaque is to commemorate the Canal Duke, Francis Egerton of Berkhamsted, 1735 to 1803. Presumably it was erected on the 200th anniversary of his death in 2003. He was the 3rd Lord Bridgwater and lived at Ashridge near Berkhamsted. He is seen as the father of the inland waterways system, having commissioned the Bridgwater canal from his coal mines in Worsley near Manchester in the 1770s and having lived long enough to see the Grand Junction canal from London to Berkhamsted completed in 1798. He died before it was extended to Birmingham.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.761949
Longitude
-0.560109