Slough Arm
| Slough Arm | |
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The Slough Arm towpath at Yiewsley | |
| Specifications | |
| Locks | 1 stop gate |
| Status | navigable |
| History | |
| Principal engineer | Alfred Walker |
| Date of act | 1879 |
| Date completed | 1882 |
| Date closed | 1960 |
| Date restored | 1975 |
| Geography | |
| Start point | Slough |
| End point | Cowley Peachey |
| Connects to | Grand Union Canal |
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The Slough Arm is a short canal branch from the Grand Union Main Line to Slough in Berkshire (before 1974 in Buckinghamshire), England. It was originally opened to serve the brick-making industry. The last commercial traffic was carried in 1960, but as the plans to fill it in were opposed locally, the stretch was re-opened in 1975 and has remained in use since.