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
Lapal Tunnel the canal is in good repair and is used by boats accessing Hawne basin. The Lapal Canal Trust is concerned with restoring the lost canal to make it navigable up to the tunnel from both the Halesowen and Selly Oak ends, and originally had a longer term aim of restoring the tunnel. In May 2007 the trust received recommendations from professional consultants, Atkins, that the tunnel should not be restored but replaced by a new up-and-over alignment instead. In February 2012 plans for the regeneration of the Selly Oak area were submitted to Birmingham City Council which included a navigable