The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just...
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Junction Canal. At Braunston the latter met the Oxford Canal linking back to the Thames to the south and to Coventry to the north via the Coventry Canal. "Grand...
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is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton...
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Canal Street is a residential street in Jericho, an inner suburb of Oxford, England, northwest of the city centre. The annual Jericho Street Fair takes...
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navigation to Oxford. Iffley Lock and Osney Lock lie within the bounds of the city. In the 18th century the Oxford Canal was built to connect Oxford with the...
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Eagle Ironworks, the Oxford Canal, the Fell Press and the Oratory of St Barnabas the Chymist, all in the Jericho area of Lyra's Oxford), a postcard from...
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Great Canal Journeys is a British television series in which a pair of presenters take canal barge and narrowboat trips in the United Kingdom, Europe,...
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Cumberland and Oxford Canal was opened in 1832 to connect the largest lakes of southern Maine with the seaport of Portland, Maine. The canal followed the...
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Brownsover (section Oxford Canal and nature reserve)
Brownsover Community Infants School. The Oxford Canal runs through the Brownsover area. The original canal was built in the late 18th century, and was...
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national canal network came into being, with the construction of canals such as the Oxford Canal and the Trent & Mersey Canal. The new canal system was...
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River Cherwell (category Geography of Oxford)
Oxford Canal enters the valley here, and roughly follows, on its route to Oxford until Thrupp near Kidlington. The canal connects the Coventry Canal to...
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Oxfordshire (redirect from County of Oxford)
their valleys. The Oxford Canal links to the Midlands and follows the Cherwell from Banbury via Kidlington into the city of Oxford, where these join the...
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Stirling Prize. The Canal Building sits next to the north entrance to the college and, as the name suggests, beside the Oxford Canal. It houses 50 students...
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Napton on the Hill (section Canals)
Woodstock and Oxford until 1777, when the canal reached Fenny Compton which then took over as the trans-shipment point. The Oxford Canal's chief engineer...
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and Mersey Canal. It also has connections with the Ashby Canal, the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the Oxford Canal. Some maps show the canal as a northern...
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the canals built in the period from 1770 to 1800 were contour canals - for example, the Thames & Severn Canal completed in 1789, and the Oxford Canal completed...
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Westbrook, Maine (redirect from Oxford-Cumberland Canal School)
name would change to the S. D. Warren Paper Mill. The Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened in 1832, connecting Portland to Harrison by way of Westbrook and...
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Lock (water navigation) (redirect from Canal locks)
the lock cill. On the Oxford Canal it is called a babbie; on the Grand Union Canal it is referred to as the cill bumper. Some canal operation authorities...
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Kidlington (section Proposed Oxford United stadium)
Oxfordshire, England. It is in-between the River Cherwell and Oxford Canal, 5 miles (8 km) north of Oxford and 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Bicester. It remains...
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The Suez Canal (Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red...
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The Rochdale Canal, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Droitwich Canals have all been restored to navigation since 2000. The Oxford Canal near Rugby...
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Birmingham to London via the Oxford Canal. The story of the Birmingham and Fazeley begins in 1770, when the Birmingham Canal Company was seen as having...
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distributaries such as the Longford River. Three canals intersect this stretch: the Oxford Canal, Kennet and Avon Canal and Wey Navigation. Its longest artificial...
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Parliamentary constituency of the city Oxford Canal, a canal from Coventry to Oxford, England Oxford Castle, England Oxford East (UK Parliament constituency)...
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Contra Costa Canal Corning Canal Delta–Mendota Canal Eastside Canal Folsom South Canal Friant-Kern Canal Glenn Colusa Canal Inter-California Canal Kern Island...
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Warwickshire (section Canals and waterways)
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal passes briefly through Warwickshire from a junction with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth. The Oxford Canal runs from near Coventry...
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reaches of the River Thames near Oxford, thus shortening the journey. In 1927 the canal was bought by the Regent's Canal Company and, since 1 January 1929...
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Warwickshire ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
series of canals forming a circuit around the West Midlands area of England. The ring is formed from the Coventry Canal, the Oxford Canal, the Grand...
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