Cumberland Basin (London)

As the Regent's Canal turns left towards Camden Town, the remains of the Cumberland Basin arm lies straight ahead.

Cumberland Basin (or Cumberland Market Basin) was a canal basin near to Euston railway station in London, England and a part of the Regent's Canal. It was originally known as Jew's Harp Basin in the 1880s, after a nearby public house.

The basin's excavation was authorised in 1813 to serve Cumberland Market and then-industrial "New Road" and in 1941-1942 was filled back in chiefly using rubble from the London Blitz of those years and the previous year.[1]

  1. ^ London Canal Museum, The Regent's Canal, Urban engineering, retrieved 2008-06-26.