2020

SK5704 : Evans Weir along the Grand Union Canal/River Soar

taken 4 years ago, near to Leicester, England

Evans Weir along the Grand Union Canal/River Soar
Evans Weir along the Grand Union Canal/River Soar
Black Friars is an area of the city of Leicester next to the River Soar, it is named after a former Dominican friary. The area is being redeveloped with a mixture of apartments and offices.
River Soar Navigation

24.1 miles (38.8km) long with 18 locks from just above Freeman's Meadow Lock in Leicester to the River Trent and Erewash Canal; the River Soar forms part of the Grand Union Canal Leicester Section. Thomas Skipworth was granted permission by Charles I to make the river navigable in 1634 but the scheme was never completed. The section between the River Trent and Loughborough was made navigable in 1778 by engineers John Smith and John May and extended by William Jessop to Leicester in 1794. The Grand Union Canal (not to be confused with the later canal route of the same name) connected it south to the southern canals network and to London in 1814. It was not until 1894 that the Grand Union and the Leicestershire & Northamptonshire Union Canals were purchased by the Grand Junction Canal Company that later formed the Grand Union Canal who purchased the Leicester and Loughborough Navigations in 1932 along with the Erewash Canal.


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Geographical Context: Rivers, Streams, Drainage City, Town centre Construction, Development Canals River: Soar Primary Subject: Weir other tags: Canal Weir Construction Work Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Grand Union Canal [33] · Black Friars [24] · Evans Weir [8] ·
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SK5704, 237 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Mat Fascione   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 10 April, 2020   (more nearby)
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Friday, 10 April, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 579 047 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:38.2501N 1:8.7062W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 579 048
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Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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