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The canal starts at Brentford on the river Thames in west London, heads north and northwest to the Midlands. This length includes the Blisworth Tunnel of 3,056 yards in length.
Near to the village of Braunston in Northamptonshire the Grand Union splits into two separate canals as detailed below:
The Birmingham "main line"
The first being the main part, which travels west through to Birmingham. At Braunston the Grand Union joins with the Oxford Canal. From Braunston, a ten mile stretch of the Grand Union shares its route with the Oxford Canal, until the two canals diverge again at Napton, the Oxford diverging south, the Grand Union diverging north-west.
It then travels through the towns of Leamington Spa and Warwick. In between Warwick and Birmingham the Grand Union forms a junction with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, it then travels into Birmingham.
The Leicester Line
The second part of the Grand Union, called the "Leicester Line" runs north from near Braunston for about 35 miles until it reaches Leicester, where it joins the River Soar to provide a link to the River TrentThe River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. Its source is in Staffordshire between Biddulph and Mow Cop and its course flows through the Midlands until it joins the Humber Estuary and then the North Sea. It is unusual, in England, for flowing N and to the Trent and Mersey CanalThe Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal linking the River Trent at Shardlow in Derbyshire to the River Mersey at Runcorn in Cheshire. It runs for 93. 5 miles (140km), providing a connection from north-west England to the East Midlands, and was opened in 177. On this part of the Grand Union the famous Foxton LocksFoxton Locks are a staircase of ten canal locks located on the Grand Union Canal about five miles west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton. Staircase locks are used where a canal needs to climb are located, near the LeicestershireLeicestershire (abbreviated Leics is a landlocked county in central England. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester which has traditionally been its administrative centre, but is now a unitary authority administratively separate fr town of Market HarboroughMarket Harborough is a market town in Leicestershire, in England, with a population of around 20,000. The River Welland flows through the town. Market Harborough is the administrative headquarters of the Harborough district. Market Harborough is located i.
The waterway stretches for 217km (135 miles)To help compare orders of magnitude; this page lists lengths between 100 and 1,000 km (105 and 106 m). See also lengths of other orders of magnitude. Distances shorter than 100 km 100 km is equal to: 62 miles side of square with area 10,000 kmē radius of and has 160 locksA canal lock or navigation lock is a device that lifts or lowers boats, barges or other vessels from one water level to another. Locks used on canals allow the negotiation of hills without recourse to lengthy detours, or the use of tunnels or aqueducts..
Several branches run off from it: close to the southern end of the canal, one branch runs to Paddington BasinPaddington Basin is an area of London at Paddington. The canal junction of the Regent's Canal and the Grand Junction Canal is close to this point but the basin itself is the terminus of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Junction Canal. It was opened in 1801 in west London. Just north-west of the Basin, at ' Little Venice', it connects to the Regent's Canal. There is also a branch that runs to the town of Aylesbury and one to Northampton where it joins the River Nene.
On the Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal there are two short branches, one short spur to the village of Welford, and one to the town of Market Harborough.
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