Narrow boats on the Grand Union Canal at Marsworth, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK


Marsworth is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about two miles north of Tring, in Hertfordshire and six miles east of Aylesbury The construction of the Grand Union Canal, which passes through this village brought with it many new business opportunities and the village expanded greatly as a result. Within the parish boundary of Marsworth, to the south of the main village where the canal cross the Lower Icknield Way is the hamlet of Startop's End. In 2010 the during building work engineers dug up over 40 bodies in un-marked graves which were subsequesntly interred in a ceremony conducted by the vicar.[citation needed. Nearby are three of the four Tring reservoirs, one of which is named Marsworth reservoir.


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Location: Marsworth Locks, Aylesbury
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