Canal overflow cut

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The photograph on this page of Canal overflow cut by Robin Webster as part of the Geograph project.

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Canal overflow cut

Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 21 Jul 2013

Just below Uxbridge Lock, the Grand Union Canal is fed from the east by some of the several waterways in the Colne valley. Here some of this flow leaves to the west to augment the mill stream of the former Upper Colham Mill. The way this is arranged suggests it was also once a small dock.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.544436
Longitude
-0.488677