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©Pip Rolls
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Access to this spot is via a derelict area described as "works" its was the plant area for the gravel pits.
©Jack Hill
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The Grand Union Canal heading under a blocked over bridge
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>This is the Broad Water reach of the canal, upstream of Wide Water lock. The towpath forms part of the London Loop and is also the route of National Cycle Network 61.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km east<br/>These Almshouses were founded by the will of Lady Alice, Countess of Derby, to provide for six poor women of the parish of Harefield. The Countess, who lived as the Lady of the Manor at Harefield Place, died in 1637. The almshouses are on Church Hill, and are Grade II* listed.
©Nigel Cox
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©Pip Rolls
Dist:0.8km south<br/>The Grand Union Canal just North of Widewater Lock
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The church is in Countess Close, off Church Hill. The churchyard contains a large number of graves of Australian soldiers who died of their wounds at the hospital at Harefield Park during the First World War.
©Nigel Cox
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©Pip Rolls
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©pearl gardner
Dist:0.8km north<br/>Black Jack's Lock takes its name from the adjoining Black Jack's Mill, once a flour mill but now an Italian restaurant. Although not the same building, this mill goes back to Domesday times when it was operated by the eponymous miller, who was so called due to his cruel treatment of his donkey.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.8km north<br/>Lock Number 85 viewed looking northwards.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km north<br/>I was lucky to have a bike ride on a beautiful sunny day in the middle of a spell of wet weather - but I got very muddy from puddles on the towpath. For a similar view in 1977, see [[457601]].
©David Hawgood
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©pearl gardner
Dist:0.8km east<br/>
©pearl gardner

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