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GRAND SURREY CANAL, a canal in the N of Surrey, in and near the metropolis. It deflects from the Thames, by a dock at Rotherhithe; goes south-south-eastward, to the western vicinity of Deptford; and proceeds thence westward to Camberwell. It is all on one level, without a lock. It was authorized in 1801; and was originally designed to go to the Thames at Vauxhall creek.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a canal" (ADL Feature Type: "canals") |
Administrative units: | Surrey AncC |
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