Grand Union Canal (Wendover Arm): Tring Mill Winding Hole
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Grand Union Canal (Wendover Arm): Tring Mill Winding Hole
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 11 Sep 2013
The Nicholson's Waterways Guide ahows a winding hole here, these usually being a deliberately widened reach of the canal that enables long narrowboats to turn through 180 degrees. Usually these are found next to old wharves where working boats might have had a reason to need to turn, and its proximity to Image suggests the reason why there would be one here. However in this case the winding hole appears to make use of the channel, on the right, of an incoming canal feeder stream from Tring. To be honest the space available up the channel for turning, and the narrow jaws of the opening, would make it a struggle for any boat longer than about 40' to turn in this one!
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Image Location
Latitude
51.806765
Longitude
-0.662245