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Brentford: Brentford Dock
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Brentford Dock, a freight terminus of the Great Western Railway, built at the confluence of the River Thames and River Brent, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built between 1855 and 1859. A spur line from the GWR at Southall was constructed to the dock to facilitate easy transferral of freight from lighters and barges on the Thames to GWR served destinations in the west of the United Kingdom. The dock was redeveloped as residential accommodation in the early 1970s, and little industrial archeology remains. However, Dock Road still retains some of its original fan pattern cobblestone road bed and examples of Brunel's broad-gauge 'bridge section' rail can be seen there.
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The Brentford Dock flats (Originally named the Tiber Estate[6])were built alongside formerly important transport infrastructure as Brentford is the terminus of the Grand Union Canal, originally the Grand Junction Canal. This waterway is still in use for leisure traffic.
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The road bridge once carried the Great Western & Brentford Railway from Southall to Brentford Dock. It was opened in 1859 and converted to standard gauge in 1876. At the junction with the High Street is St Lawrence's Church designed by Thomas Hardwick in 1764 and retaining a 15th century ragstone tower. It closed in 1961 and is currently derelict and boarded up.
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