Tickets Alert: Take a trip through the Islington tunnel

Under the streets of Islington runs a tunnel – linking two parts of the Regents Canal, and next month tours of the tunnels will take place.
The tunnel was dug under Islington to avoid the need to have a large set of locks at either end as Islington is on a hill and it was eventually decided that rather than going over the hill, they would go under it instead. This was more expensive to build, but considerably cheaper to operate the canal is they didn’t need to operate two sets of loc