Top lock at Stoke Bruerne

After rising through Cosgrove Lock, ( and passing the start of the abandoned Buckingham Arm ) another long level section brings the canal to the bottom of the Stoke Bruerne flight of seven locks.

At the top of this flight is the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum followed shortly by Blisworth Tunnel, at 3056 yards ( 2794 m ) one of the longest on the canal network.

Through its charitable arm The Waterways Trust, British Waterways maintained a museum of its history within the National Waterways Museum's three sites at Gloucester Docks, Stoke Bruerne and Ellesmere Port.

Mary Ward ( 1885 – 1972 ) acted as a nurse for decades from the rope shop at Stoke Bruerne.

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, part of England's National Waterways Museum, is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire.

* Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

He also received the livings of Cottesmore, Rutland, and Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire.

A boat weighing machine, one of only four known to have existed on British canals, which was originally installed at Tongwynlais, and later moved to North Road, Cardiff, was presented to the British Transport Commission in 1955, and re-erected at the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum in 1964.

* Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire

The BTC also established the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum.

* Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, Northamptonshire

The canal from the Thames reached Two Waters near Hemel Hempstead in 1798, Bulbourne at the north end of the Tring summit in 1799, and Stoke Bruerne at the south end of Blisworth Tunnel the following year.

To cope with the traffic volumes, the locks at Stoke Bruerne were duplicated in 1835, and new larger reservoirs built at Tring to ease a serious water shortage.

Top lock at Stoke Bruerne

The last surviving pair were removed from Welshpool and taken to Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum in the early 1970s.

These were removed, taken to Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum and replaced by gates of a standard design.

To the south of the flight is a long level pound, which stretches to the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum and the top of the Stoke Bruerne flight of seven locks.

In May 1968 students at Guildford School of Art began a " sit-in " at the School in Stoke Park which lasted until mid-summer.

Tracking east from here and past the two Church of England parish churches, both called Saint Mary's ( Stoke Newington strangely decided to retain the old one, unusual in a London parish ), leads to Abney Park Cemetery, one of the most splendid and enlightened of Victorian London cemeteries.

Although this originally terminated at the New River Head in Finsbury, since 1946 its main flow has ended at Stoke Newington reservoirs, though a slow ornamental trickle flows past the West Reservoir to go underground for a stretch on Green Lanes, reappearing for a time in Clissold Park only to disappear underground again on its way to Canonbury.

Stoke Newington East and West Reservoirs, to the north of Clissold Park, are quite substantial for urban facilities.

In the 19th century it was discovered that Stoke Newington Common and Abney Park Cemetery had been part of a Neolithic working area for axe-making, some examples of which can be seen in the Museum of London.

* Chris Singleton, the Irish singer-songwriter, currently lives in Stoke Newington ; his ' Twisted City ' album cover features a girl walking in Abney Park Cemetery.

Its villages include Hanoverville, Schoenersville ( pronounced " SHAY-nerz-vil " and also in Lehigh County ,) Stoke Park, and Westgate Hills.

Other local roads of note include east-to-west Hanoverville Road, Macada Road, and Stoke Park Road and north-to-south Jacksonville Road and Township Line Road.

Edward Baily's public statue to Isaac Watts at Abney Park Cemetery | Abney Park, Stoke Newington

* Dr Isaac Watts – Dr Watts ' Walk, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London

George Banks died of cancer and pneumonia in Dalston, Hackney, close to London, and is buried nearby at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington with his wife-the author Isabella Banks.

One of the last games of the period was an FA Cup Quarter-final second-leg tie clash between Stoke and Bolton Wanderers ; the match ended in tragedy in what would be known as the Burnden Park disaster – 33 people died and 500 were injured.

* Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire

* Stoke Park Pavilions, Northamptonshire, attributed ( c. 1629 – 35 )

File: Stoke Park Pavilions 2008 08 16. jpg | Stoke Park, attributed

* Bradford Park Avenue ( 1908 – 70 ) and Tottenham Hotspur elected to the Football League after Lincoln City and Stoke FC are expelled.

Stoke FC is not involved in the election process but goes into receivership soon afterwards and is replaced by Tottenham Hotspur, who have lost the election to Bradford Park Avenue.

He was buried with his wife Catherine Booth in the main London burial ground for 19th century non-conformist ministers and tutors, the non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington.

Stoke played a home League match against Middlesbrough at Vale Park whilst repair work was on-going.

Housing estates in the modern Aylesbury include: Bedgrove, Broughton, Elm Farm, Elmhurst, Fairford Leys, Haydon Hill, Hawkslade Farm, Meadowcroft, Prebendal Farm, Quarrendon, Queens Park, Southcourt, Stoke Grange, Walton Court, Watermead and the Willows.

It briefly re-enters Northamptonshire again, and at this point there is a roundabout with the A427 ( for Stoke Albany ) and A4304 ( former A427 ), and an exit for Great Bowden.

* Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire

He died at Stoke Albany, Northamptonshire aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Thomas.

Stoke Bruerne is a small village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England about north of Milton Keynes and south of Northampton.

Blisworth Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England between the villages of Stoke Bruerne at the southern end and Blisworth at the northern end.

By the time the rest of the Grand Junction Canal had opened between London and Braunston, Northamptonshire in 1800, apart from the crossing of the River Great Ouse, the section of canal from Blisworth to the lower end of Stoke Bruerne locks was the only section unfinished.

The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, and the Canal Museum ( Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum ), Stoke Bruerne, Towcester, Northamptonshire remain linked as part of the National Waterways Museum.