Places of Interest
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Little Venice
Cascade Floating Art Gallery
Lord's Cricket Ground
Macclesfield Bridge (Blow-Up Bridge)
Regent's Park (Landscaped for the Prince Regent on the site of Henry VIII's hunting ground)
London Zoo (Founded in 1828 in Regent's Park, this is one of the oldest and most famous zoos in the world)
Pirate Club
Camden Lock Market
St Pancras Old Church (11th century parish church substantially altered and restored)
Camley Street Natural Park (Nature reserve and study centre)
Granary Square and Visitor Centre
London Canal Museum
Battlebridge Basin
Islington Tunnel
City Road Basin
Islington Boat Club
Kingsland Basin
Geoffrye Museum
St Columba's Church (fine Victorian church, built by architect James Brookes in 1868/9)
Laburnum Boat Club
Broadway Market (Traditional London market with rich variety of stalls)
London Fields open space (cycle route, open air swimming pool)
Victoria Park
Hertford Union Canal
Bow Wharf (shops, cafes, comedy club)
Roman Road (shops, market, restaurants)
Mile End Park
Ragged School Museum
Limehouse Basin
The hydraulic accumulator tower
Islington - City Road Basin
HISTORIC INFORMATION
City Road Basin covers about four acres but in its heyday, around 1890, it was much larger. It stretched beyond City Road and had several arms leading off the basin.
It was a thriving business area and contained flour and timber wharves some of which were owned by the canal carrier company Fellows, Morton and Clayton.
In the early 1900s, the pharmaceutical firm British Drug Houses bought a large area of space and Pickford, the famous removals company, also owned property here. They moved furniture and goods by canal boat as well as wagon.
Changing the horses
There used to be stables here on the north side of the canal. This is one of the three points allong the Regent's Canal where boaters could change their horses (the other two places are Hampstead Road Lockin Camden and Old Ford Lock in Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets).
Horses often got tired pulling their heavy loads of stone, coal, manure or ice and they deserved a rest every now and then.
CURRENT INFORMATION
Art and Recreation
The Islington Boat Club is based here and provides recreation and education for local children and groups.
If you look along the walls of the towpath you will also see some fine mosaics of canal life and history made by local school children. Also look out for some attractive fish-shaped benches and other local artistic installations and projects.
Camden Lock Market
Synopsis of Caitlin Davies' book
A unique piece of London, cradle of design talent, heartland of the capital's music scene, multicultural melting pot, Camden Lock is the world's most famous market. The Lock started life as a collection of craft units housed in Victorian horse stables in a run-down timber wharf on the banks of the Regent's Canal. Today an industrial dead zone has been transformed into London's second most popular free attraction after the British Museum.
The story of Camden Lock is one of dereliction and rejuvenation. Careers have started - and ended - at the Lock. Fortunes have been made, and lost, overnight. Craftspeople have become internationally known artists. Struggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.