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« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2020, 14:46:50 »

I think 8 is Maidenhead. Although as I've only been there once, it probably isn't! Just that something about it jogs my memory.
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« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2020, 14:48:57 »

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Right River wrong place.
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« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2020, 15:30:22 »

Is 1 Christchurch?
stunning photos, by the way.
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« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2020, 15:54:22 »

8 looks tidal, with the muddy bank and the above-water boat on the far bank.  So given that it's the same river as Maidenhead's, it's below Teddington Lock.
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« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2020, 15:59:35 »

9 is Hebden Bridge on the Rochdale Canal - one of my favourites.

Yes true but then some would say that the Grand union was a company rarther than a Canal the main part being the Grand Junction. We need Richard Fairhust to adjudicate on this one.

Heh - there really is no right answer on what to call the constituent bits of the GU system.

The Grand Union Canal Company was effectively formed by the Regent's Canal buying the Grand Junction and the 'Warwick' canals. But despite that, people have still continued to call the Paddington-Limehouse bit the Regent's Canal. The "Grand Union" usually describes the Brentford-Birmingham main line and its various branches, though a few people still call it the Grand Junction.

Canal and river names can be confusing, but spare a thought for the publishers of the Nicholsons waterways guides, who recently(ish) issued their Severn, Avon & Birmingham book with a beautiful picture of Pulteney Bridge over the River Avon. It looked great. Shame it was the wrong Avon.
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« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2020, 16:12:41 »

The OS (Ordnance Survey) in 1953 called it the Grand Union Canal - From the NLS map site.
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« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2020, 16:19:12 »

10. The Stroudwater Canal between Stonehouse and Stroud?
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« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2020, 16:23:12 »

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« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2020, 16:23:59 »

No. 8 - is it Richmond?
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« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2020, 16:24:57 »

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Getting close
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« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2020, 16:27:13 »

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Yes Walked from Mytholmroyd after getting there via Man Vic and Summit Tunnel then back home via Copy Pit.
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« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2020, 16:28:22 »

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No Right borough wrong Bridge
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« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2020, 17:10:09 »

The OS (Ordnance Survey) in 1953 called it the Grand Union Canal - From the NLS map site.

The OS has always been rather ornery on canal names. It called the Llangollen and the Montgomery the "Shropshire Union" well into the 90s, long after the post-war names had been widely adopted. Even today it uses the "River Dun Navigation" for a stretch of waterway that everyone calls the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.
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Oh! That was going to be my answer.

How about Kew Bridge?
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