Wenlock Basin

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Looking North up Wenlock Basin towards its junction with Regent's Canal, July 2008 Wenlock basin north.JPG
Looking North up Wenlock Basin towards its junction with Regent's Canal, July 2008
Looking South down Wenlock Basin towards the Barbican Estate towers, July 2008 Wenlock basin south.JPG
Looking South down Wenlock Basin towards the Barbican Estate towers, July 2008
Regents Canal Basins
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To Paddington
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Kings Cross Station
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A5200 York Way
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Battlebridge Basin
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A5203 Caledonian Road
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Pentonville
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Islington Tunnel (960 yd)
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Danbury Road bridge
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City Road Lock
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City Road Basin
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Wharf Road bridge
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Wenlock Basin
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Sturts Road Lock
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To Limehouse

The Wenlock Basin, is a 320 metre long canal basin on the Regent's Canal, in the Hoxton area of the London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom. The City Road Basin lies just to the west of Wharf Road and is in the neighbouring London Borough of Islington.

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There are private residential moorings [1] at the North end, with their own entrance gate and entryphone on Wharf Road. The basin itself narrows considerably towards the South - and is not deep enough to be navigable by anything other than canoe.

Unlike the Regent's Canal and City Road Basin, Wenlock Basin is not owned or managed by the Canal & River Trust. [2]

History

The basin was constructed in 1826 and is close to the entrance of the Islington Tunnel, where a tug service operated until the 1930s. The opening of the basin went badly wrong, with the cofferdam separating it from the Canal collapsing, prematurely filling the basin and leading to the water level of the canal falling by 13 inches. Traffic on the canal was halted until rainfall could restore the water levels. [3]

The basin took the name of Wenlock Barns, a local farm. [4] The name Wenlock was used by an electoral ward of the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, it was also, for a time, the name of a ward in the London Borough of Hackney.

A map showing the wards of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. Shoreditch Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg
A map showing the wards of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

Residential developments

Wenlock Basin is accessible only to residents. The development consists of the following buildings:

Businesses

While no longer serving the original cargo handling and warehousing business, a number of modern businesses have office space on Wenlock Basin, either in the ground floor business units of the larger residential developments - or in their own property directly backing on to the basin. They include the Victoria Miro Gallery, a leading British contemporary art gallery in London run by Victoria Miro, and the British Ecological Society, a learned society in the field of Ecology.

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References

  1. Canal Museum: Advice on Moorings in London
  2. British Waterways, London: May 2008
  3. Web page on the history of the basin https://www.wenlockhouseboatco.com/history-of-regents-canal-wenlock-basin.html
  4. web link to a map of the manor of Wenlock Barn http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/crace/a/007000000000016u00009000.html
  5. Wilson, Mary (11 October 2007). "Luxuty apartments: the me, me, me flat". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  6. Union Wharf: Residents association
  7. Persimmon Homes: Property developers
  8. Telford Homes: Estilo Development
  9. Housing Design Awards 2008: Shortlisted Completed Schemes
  10. Londonewcastle: Property developer
  11. Modern City Living: Property developer
  12. Wenlock Building: Sales Website

Coordinates: 51°31′56″N0°05′45″W / 51.532349°N 0.095714°W / 51.532349; -0.095714