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==Arms== [[File:Grand Union Canal Paddington Branch over North Circular.jpg|thumb|The Paddington Arm crossing the [[North Circular]] Road viewed from the east looking west]] The Grand Union Canal has six main branches, usually termed '[[canal arm|arms]]'. ;Paddington Arm: Five miles (eight km) from [[Brentford]], the [[Paddington Arm]] runs circuitously on the flat to a junction with the [[Regent's Canal]], the latter running north and east of Central London. The triangular [[canal basin]] formed by the junction is called the [[Little Venice basin|Little Venice]] in Maida Vale. The Arm's final 500 m runs south-east to [[Paddington Basin]]. ;Slough Arm: From Cowley Peachey, the [[Slough Arm]] runs {{convert|5|mi|km}} to the west. ;Wendover and Aylesbury Arms From Marsworth, about {{convert|35|mi|km}} by canal from [[Brentford]], two arms diverge: one to [[Wendover Arm Canal|Wendover]] (currently in-part navigable as being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wendover Arm Trust |url=http://wendoverarmtrust.co.uk/ |website=Wendover Arm Trust}}</ref>) the other descends through 16 narrow locks for {{convert|4|mi|km}} to [[Aylesbury]]. ;Northampton Arm: From Gayton Junction, about {{convert|60|mi|km}} from Brentford, the [[Northampton]] Arm links with the [[River Nene]]. ;[[Saltisford Canal Arm]], Warwick: At Warwick the northernmost branch off of the Grand Union Canal (also known by regular users as the "GU"), the Saltisford Canal Arm begins. The restored arm is close to the centre of Warwick. It was originally the main line of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, 1799, leading to the terminus and a basin with wharfs for timber. When the Warwick and Napton Canal opened, this bypassed channel remained as the town's wharf. The Saltisford Canal Trust have restored most of the surviving canal, 1990β2015, such as installing long lengths of sheet piling and restoring a warehouse in 2007. Its last {{convert|160|yd|m}} were lost in the 1970s saving a disused road bridge that stands isolated in a car park. Warwick's narrowboat moorings are on the Arm by a public park partly in view of the [[Warwick Castle|Castle]]. Over 800 visiting narrowboats cruise to Warwick each year and moor on the arm.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saltisford Canal Trust |url=https://www.saltisfordcanal.co.uk/}}</ref> The Leicester Line has two modest arms of its own, see [[Grand Union Canal (old)]].
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