Canals – Surrey good ms letter sent to Colonel Leveson Gower of Workingham, Berks dated 1808 concerning the sale of his Rotherhithe Estate to the Grand Surrey Canal Co for £2,079 : ‘...the company have also paid Mr Ware on your acct for 11 months interest on the above sum...’ The Grand Surrey Canal, now disused and mainly turned into linear parks, linked the Old Kent Road with Peckham. It was finally opened in 1826 and its main cargo was timber.