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
English Canal Year's Eve 1867 which marked the end of the project. In 1884-1888 a railway was built all the way between Gällivare and Luleå, the Iron Ore Line. Remains of the canal project can still be seen on several places in Norrbotten and Swedish Lapland, for example in Boden. These remains are sometimes called "Engelska graven", which is a play on the Swedish word "grav" which can mean both "ditch"/"trench" and "grave/"tomb". English Canal The English Canal () was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and