Blisworth Blisworth Blisworth is a village and civil parish in the South Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England. The West Coast Main Line, from London Euston to Manchester and Scotland, runs alongside the village partly hidden and partly on an embankment. The Grand Union Canal passes through the village and the north portal of the Blisworth tunnel is near Stoke Road. It is about south of Northampton, north of Towcester and north of Milton Keynes. The M1 motorway junction 15 is about north east. The 1961 census showed a population of 1,192. By the 2001 census there were 1,786 people in the
Canal tunnel would be propelled by legging. The term "canal tunnel" does not seem to be commonly applied to tunnels used to conduct water (for irrigation, water supply, etc.), such as the 48-kilometre-long Arpa-Sevan tunnel in Armenia (see List of longest tunnels), or a number of tunnels on the Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal in China. For those, the term water tunnel is more commonly used. Canal tunnels were made in the Kingdom of Travancore as early as 1876. Canal tunnel A canal tunnel is a tunnel for a (shipping) canal. The longest canal tunnel in the world is the Rove Tunnel in France, currently