Information for record number MWA4313:
Napton Junction to N of Napton

Summary Napton Junction on the Grand Union Canal, dating from the Imperial period. It is located 200m to the southeast of the southern tip of Napton Reservoirs.
What Is It?  
Type: Canal
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Napton on the Hill
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 46 62
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 When first promoted in 1792 the canal which here joins the Oxford was known as the Warwick and Braunston canal as that was to be the junction. It was surveyed to both Braunston and Napton in 1793 as the committee were uncertain whether to join the Oxford canal or the Grand Junction directly. Charles Handley, surveyor, suggested in 1795 that the company could save £50,000 out of an authorised £130,000 if the line of the canal were altered from Offchurch to accommodate a junction at Napton rather than Braunston. Thus the junction, and name, was altered.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: CDK
Date:
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 1897
   
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument CANAL * An artificial navigable waterway used for the transportation of goods. Nowadays also used for recreational purposes. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument RESERVOIR * A large natural or artificial body of water, sometimes covered, used to collect and store water for a particular function, eg. industrial or public use. back

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