Hawkesbury Junction

Hawkesbury Junction or Sutton Stop matrix reference SP360846 is a channel intersection in England, at the northern furthest reaches of the Oxford Canal where it meets the Coventry Canal, close Hawkesbury Village, Warwickshire, simply outside Coventry. The elective name, Sutton Stop, emerges from the name of a family which gave a few secure guardians there in the nineteenth century.

The Coventry Canal was approved by an Act of Parliament in 1768, and in spite of the fact that the long haul point was to interface Coventry to the Grand Trunk Canal, later called the Trent and Mersey Canal, the primary need was to achieve the coalfields at Bedworth, so coal could be dispatched to Coventry.

The initial 10 miles 16 km were finished in 1769, and coal movement demonstrated productively. The Oxford Canal was approved in that year and has worked as a shape waterway by James Brindley, which made it somewhat wasteful for the vehicle of products. Brindley kicked the bucket in 1772, and the line from Coventry to Banbury was finished by Samuel Simcock in 1778.