Grand Union Canal. Loughborough
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Grand Union Canal. Loughborough
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 10 Apr 2011
Ahead is Nottingham Road Bridge which carries the A60 over the canal; to the right is a building occupied by 3M health care. The canals at Loughborough became part of the Grand Union system in 1932, in what was in many ways a last ditch attempt to keep together a viable commercial waterway network linking the Midlands with London. Originally, however, there were two canals, the Leicester and Loughborough Navigations - this is part of the former, opened in 1794, 14 years after its counterpart. Its principal role was to carry coal south from the Derbyshire collieries but it also found a role transporting stone from the Charnwood Forest quarries.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.776131
Longitude
-1.197389