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Pictures of the Coventry Canal

Hawkesbury to Marston.

The Coventry canal, one of the earliest canals to be built in the UK, runs from the heart of the city of Coventry to join the Trent and Mersey canal at Fradley junction. Near Coventry it has a a junction with the Oxford canal, thus providing part of one of the first routes from Manchester and Birmingham to London via Oxford and the River Thames. Later both the Ashby and the Birmingham and Fazeley canal were join to it creating a number of alternative routes.

The map shows this three mile stretch of canal as being within the urban sprawl of Nuneaton. However the clearance and reclamation of the numerous collieries which supplied the work coal for boats to take down to the factories of London has now lead to the creation of open grassland and tree lined banks.

The pictures on this page are of this section.

More pictures of this canal?

Coventry to Hawkesbury / Marston to Frazeley / Frazeley to Fradley.

General information / A history of this canal.

Find our information about other canals on the canal index page.

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