{"id":742,"date":"2012-09-11T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:55:51","slug":"kings-cross-to-tring-along-the-grand-union-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/09\/kings-cross-to-tring-along-the-grand-union-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Grand Union Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m walking\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Union_Canal\">Grand Union Canal<\/a> from King&#8217;s Cross (where I work) to Birmingham in stages,\u00a0probably\u00a0one every month, so maybe I&#8217;ll hit the second city by next Christmas, or not. \u00a0We&#8217;ll just have to see.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the proposed stages so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2012\/09\/kings-cross-to-ivanhoe-beacon-stage-1-kx-to-lisson-grove\/\">King&#8217;s Cross &#8211; Lisson Grove<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2012\/09\/kings-cross-to-ivinghoe-beacon-stage-2-lisson-grove-to-greenford\/\">Lisson Grove &#8211; Greenford<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage 3: <a title=\"King\u2019s Cross to Birmingham (Grand Union canal) stage 3: Greenford to Uxbridge\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2012\/10\/kings-cross-to-birmingham-grand-union-canal-stage-3-greenford-to-uxbridge\/\">Greenford &#8211; Uxbridge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage 4: <a title=\"King\u2019s Cross to Birmingham via the Grand Union canal. Stage 4: Uxbridge to Moor Park\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2013\/01\/kings-cross-to-birmingham-via-the-grand-union-canal-stage-4-uxbridge-to-moor-park\/\">Uxbridge &#8211; Moor park<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: \u00a0<a title=\"King\u2019s Cross to Birmingham via the Grand Union canal. Stage 5: Moor Park to Tring\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2013\/02\/kings-cross-to-birmingham-via-the-grand-union-canal-stage-5-moor-park-to-tring\/\">Moor Park &#8211; Tring<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage 6: <a title=\"King\u2019s Cross to Birmingham via the Grand Union canal. Stage 6: Tring to Leighton Buzzard\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2013\/12\/kings-cross-to-birmingham-via-the-grand-union-canal-stage-6-tring-to-leighton-buzzard\/\">Tring &#8211; Leighton Buzzard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage\u00a07: <a title=\"King\u2019s Cross to Birmingham via the Grand Union canal. Stage 7: Leighton Buzzard to Milton Keynes\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2014\/02\/kings-cross-to-birmingham-via-the-grand-union-canal-stage-7-leighton-buzzard-to-milton-keynes\/\">Leighton Buzzard to Milton Keynes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stage\u00a08: <a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2016\/01\/kings-cross-to-birmingham-via-the-grand-union-canal-stage-8-milton-keynes-to-iron-bridge-aqueduct\/\">Milton Keynes to\u00a0Iron Trunk aqueduct<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and so on and so forth up to Brum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a title=\"Grand Union Canal route map\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2014\/01\/grand-union-canal-route-map\/\">map of the route of the Grand Union Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"London to Birmingham via the Grand Union Canal\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-0ZAH8_oCwXU\/URKzCFD6RQI\/AAAAAAAAAWQ\/bPTZKuzfklg\/s512\/DSCN2114.JPG\" alt=\"London to Birmingham via the Grand Union Canal\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m walking\u00a0the Grand Union Canal from King&#8217;s Cross (where I work) to Birmingham in stages,\u00a0probably\u00a0one every month, so maybe I&#8217;ll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,12],"tags":[51,141,32,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}