Surrey Linear Canal Park

The Surrey Linear Canal Park occupies the exact path of the former Surrey Canal, which once cut through the industrial heart of London. This waterway opened in eighteen hundred and ten to transport timber and coal, serving as a vital artery for the local economy before the rise of motor transport rendered it obsolete. You are walking on a green corridor that hides the engineering efforts of early nineteenth century laborers who dug this trench by hand to connect the Thames to the docks.