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TheWenlock Basin, is a 320 metre longcanal basin on theRegent's Canal, in theHoxton area of theLondon Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom. TheCity Road Basin lies just to the west of Wharf Road and is in the neighbouringLondon Borough of Islington.
There are private residential moorings[1] at the North end, with their own entrance gate and entryphone on Wharf Road. The basin itself narrows considerably towards the South - and is not deep enough to be navigable by anything other than canoe.
Unlike theRegent's Canal andCity Road Basin, Wenlock Basin is not owned or managed by theCanal & River Trust.[2]
The basin was constructed in 1826 and is close to the entrance of theIslington Tunnel, where a tug service operated until the 1930s. The opening of the basin went badly wrong, with the cofferdam separating it from the Canal collapsing, prematurely filling the basin and leading to the water level of the canal falling by 13 inches. Traffic on the canal was halted until rainfall could restore the water levels.[3]
The basin took the name of Wenlock Barns, a local farm.[4] The name Wenlock was used by an electoral ward of the formerMetropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, it was also, for a time, the name of a ward in theLondon Borough of Hackney.
Wenlock Basin is accessible only to residents. The development consists of the following buildings:
While no longer serving the original cargo handling and warehousing business, a number of modern businesses have office space onWenlock Basin, either in the ground floor business units of the larger residential developments - or in their own property directly backing on to the basin. They include theVictoria Miro Gallery, a leading British contemporary art gallery in London run byVictoria Miro, and theBritish Ecological Society, alearned society in the field ofEcology.
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