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Pictures of the Grand Union Canal,

Lapworth to Camp Hill.

This section takes the Grand Union into Birmingham, but it takes it's time about it. First comes a long rural section. Then Knowle locks, broad and heavy to work but set in the country. The next level run takes the canal into the outskirts of Birmingham but set in it's wooded cuttings Birmingham it kept well hidden. The city does not really impinge upon the canal until the final lock flight, that of Camp Hill is reached. These locks unlike the rest on the Grand Union are narrow locks.

Lapworth junction.	Lapworth to Knowle.	Knowle locks.
In the outskirts of Birmingham.	Camp Hill locks.

More pictures of this canal?

Bull's Bridge to Marsworth / Paddington Arm. / Marsworth to Gayton / Aylesbury Arm

Gayton to Norton / Norton to Braunston / Braunston to Napton /Napton to Warwick / Warwick to Lapworth

Camp Hill to Salford / Digbeth Branch.

General information

History of the canals which make up the present Grand Union canal.

The Grand Junction / Warwick to Napton / Warwick to Birmingham

The Grand Union.

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

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