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Adjacent to the canal on the north side is Pixie's Mere Fishery, a commercial fishing lake that advertises fishing for carp, pike, bream, tench and roach.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.1km<br/>Below Winkwell bottom lock 60, the back gardens of houses on the A4251 come down to the River Bulbourne, which runs close to the canal here.
©Graham Horn
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Three Horseshoes is a traditional 16th Century pub just a few minutes from the busy A41 but tucked away down a narrow lane which opens out on to the Grand Union Canal.
©Malcolm Campbell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The adjacent Three Horseshoes pub means that you will often get an audience when working this swing bridge. Also, at any swing bridge, it is a challenge to see how many cars you can hold up. My companions are just closing the bridge after I have steered the boat through.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>Winkwell Hemel Hempstead, HP1 2RZ on the Grand Union Canal
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Between locks 59 and 60, on the non-towpath side, there are a number of boats moored as part of a semi-permanent mooring site.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>The swing bridge is operated by key and rotates clockwise to open and anti to close. The road it carries, Winkwell, connects the London Road (previously A41) to Chaulden House Lane. This route is a busy cut through for travellers to the West of Hemel Hempstead avoiding the main town centre road junctions. The public house behind is the Three Horseshoes, a very busy and ancient inn.
©Al Wilson
Dist:0.2km<br/>This high narrow bridge carries the West Coast Main Line railway over Pouchen End Lane.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>These are moorings on the north side of the canal just upstream of Lock No. 60, Winkwell Top Lock. The nearest narrowboat, the dark green and red one, is Tilly No. 2 of Bourne End.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Parts of the Three Horseshoes date back to 1565 so the building predates the Grand Union Canal that it sits beside by over two hundred years. The chained-off area to the right is to accommodate [[614785]] when it is pivoted to allow canal boat traffic to pass.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is Bridge No. 147 on the canal, a key operated swing bridge. Originally made of timber and operated by a large wheel turned by hand, the operation was mechanized in the 1980s. According to the information board at Winkwell Lock there are three such swing bridges on the southern section of the Grand Union Canal. Beyond the bridge is [[614801]].
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>This pub is immediately adjacent to the swing bridge in the first picture
©Jack Hill
Dist:0.2km<br/>This hotel was enlarged back in the 1960's There are two pubs immediately opposite
©Jack Hill
Dist:0.2km<br/>The bridge is a swing bridge with a pub alongside.
©Jack Hill

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