City Road Basin from Graham Road Park
Coordinates: 51°31′52″N 0°05′50″W / 51.531140°N 0.097321°W / 51.531140; -0.097321 The City Road Basin is a canal basin and part of the Regent's Canal in London, owned by British Waterways. There are currently several large-scale residential developments in progress.
This section of the canal was built after the Camden Town to Paddington arm, in 1820. This basin, the nearest to the City of London soon eclipsed the Paddington Basin in the amount of goods carried, principally for coal and building materials. Goods that were being shipped locally, in contrast to the canal's original purpose of transshipping imports to the Midlands. The opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1838 actually increased the tonnage of coal carried by the canal. However, by 1929, with the Midlands trade lost to the railways, and more deliveries made by road, the canal – and this basin, fell into a long decline.[1]
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