[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not at all convinced that the > Grand Junction Canal Company actually called anything an "arm" - they were > all either branches or docks. I believe that the Aylesbury, Wendover, > Paddington bits of waterway are properly all called branches and thbe > application of the name "Arm" to them is relatively modern, although I stand > to be corrected if anyone's got any definite evidence to the contrary. > Not what you'd call 'definite evidence', and it depends on what you mean by 'relatively modern', but I think I've heard that the term 'Arm end' was in use by working boatmen to mean Gayton Junction, implying that they referred to the branch to Northampton as an arm.
Might this be another case where working boat crews and canal company used differing terminology? Martin L
