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Porter Lane, AYLESBURY, HP22 7AP

Broughton Crossing got its name from the fact that the London & North Western Railway's Cheddington to Aylesbury branch line crossed over the road here, although there was never a station. Despite that the small community of a public house and about a dozen terraced houses grew up alongside the crossing. The railway was built as long ago as 1839, but was an early pre-Beeching casualty of closure, passenger services having been terminated in 1953 and goods in 1964. The railway ran dead straight from just outside Aylesbury to just outside Cheddington, and it ran here between the silver car and the wheelie bin on the right. The 1926 large scale Ordnance Survey map shows the northern railway boundary fence just clipping the pub outbuilding behind the black sign, while the southern boundary was the hedge on the right. The public house is now called the Dog House but all the large scale Ordnance Survey maps from 1879 through to 1952 all show it as The Prince of Wales. According to the blackboard the pub also offers en suite accommodation and is the 2008 Good Food Guide. Call 01296 485228 for details...!

The Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm was completed in 1815 and runs from Marsworth to Aylesbury.

The Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm was completed in 1815 and runs from Marsworth to Aylesbury.

The narrowboat is moored while the lock is being prepared. Image Follow this narrowboat: Image Next: Image See also: Image

As the narrowboat approaches Lock 14 on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal it can be seen that the top gate of the lock is closed. As it passes yet another fisherman it slows so that it can moor before it reaches the lock. Image Follow this narrowboat: Image Next: Image See also: Image

Currently closed to traffic

View from bridge shown in Image There were wild fowl on the lakes, and an angler was on the bank. They are below the level of the canal.

A fisherman raises his long rod to allow the narrowboat to pass. The cows merely look on. There are two people on the boat, and the bicycle would allow one to ride ahead along the towpath to prepare the lock – but they are in no hurry today. The fender at the front is there to protect both the vessel and the locks it passes through. Image Follow this narrowboat: Image Next: Image See also: Image

Along the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal. The Aylesbury Arm is six and a quarter miles long and has sixteen locks. It runs west from Marsworth Junction to the centre of Aylesbury.