Grosvenor Canal
The Grosvenor Canal is a canal in the City of Westminster , England . The canal was built in 1725 by the Chelsea Waterworks Company to get drinking water from the Thames . In 1825 Lord Grosvenor had the canal of the waterworks expanded for shipping. In 1829, after increasing complaints about the poor water quality, the waterworks installed the first filter system for the water from the Thames. However, the Metropolis Water Act in 1852 then banned the withdrawal of drinking water from the Thames from 1855 and the waterworks moved its headquarters to Surbiton in 1856 .
Victoria Station was built on the site of the former waterworks , which is why the end point of the canal, the Grosvenor Basin , was raised. In 1899 parts of the canal were filled in for the expansion of the station, and in 1927 another section of the canal was filled in with the construction of the Ebury Bridge Estate . From 1928 the remaining part of the canal served as a pier for boats that transported household waste from London over the Thames. At the end of the 1990s, this procedure was discontinued and the area around the canal as Grosvenor Waterside was built with residential houses.
Lock gates on the Thames and the tower of the pumping station of the waterworks on the Thames between Chelsea Bridge in the west and Grosvenor Bridge in the east indicate the beginning of the remaining section of the canal.
Web links
- Grosvenor Canal on London's Lost Rivers
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 58 ″ W.