The Canal Museum The Canal Museum The Canal Museum, formerly known as the "National Waterways Museum Stoke Bruerne" and "The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne", is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire. It is about north of Milton Keynes and south of Northampton near junction 15 of the M1 motorway. The museum is housed in a restored corn mill at the top of a flight of canal locks, and is one of several museums and attractions operated by the Canal & River Trust, the successor
Sapperton Canal Tunnel workmanship, as it had to be closed for ten weeks after only a year, while repairs were carried out. It was superseded as the longest canal tunnel in England in 1811 by the Huddersfield Narrow Canal's Standedge Tunnel, which was long when built, later extended to to accommodate the adjacent railway tunnel, and remains the highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel in Britain - though, unlike Sapperton, Standedge can only accommodate . Strood Tunnel on the Thames and Medway Canal was also longer at when it opened in 1824, but was cut in two in 1830 by opening out a