1990

SP4282 : Oxford Canal

taken 34 years ago, near to Withybrook, Warwickshire, England

Oxford Canal
Oxford Canal
Under the M6 motorway bridge.
Oxford Canal

An important canal that showed a profit into the 20th century it was authorised in 1769. James Brindley was appointed engineer to build a 91 mile contour canal. Samuel Simcock took over on Brindley's death in 1772. He completed the line from the Coventry Canal at Longford to Banbury in 1778. The canal was finally brought into Oxford in 1790. The Grand Junction Canal opened in 1800 threatening the Oxford Canal's traffic and they protected themselves by charging very high rates for their 5.5 mile stretch between Braunston and Napton. The outdated contour canal came under increasing threat in the 1820s from various proposed new schemes so they undertook enormous engineering works north of Braunston cutting 14 miles off the 36 miles between Braunston and the Coventry Canal. The truncated loops and branches were crossed by elegant bridges inscribed 'Horseley Ironworks 1828'.

M6 Motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby to the Gretna junction (J45). Here it becomes the A74(M) and M74 which continues to Glasgow.

The M6 is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom (232 miles) and one of the busiest. It incorporates the first length of motorway opened in the UK (the Preston bypass in 1958) and forms part of a motorway "Backbone of Britain", running north-south between London and Glasgow via the industrial north of England. It is also part of the east-west route between the Midlands and the east coast ports.


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Geographical Context: Canals
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · M6 Motorway [12] · Bridge over the Oxford Canal [11] · M6 Motorway Crossing [10] ·
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SP4282, 26 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Jo and Steve Turner   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 4 September, 1990   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 2 September, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 42125 82132 [1m precision]
WGS84: 52:26.1328N 1:22.9077W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 42090 82231
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South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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