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Cumberland Basin (or Cumberland Market Basin) was a canal basin near to Euston railway station in London, England and a part of the Regent's Canal. It was originally known as Jew's Harp Basin in the 1880s, after a nearby public house. The basin and associated works were authorised in 1813〔London Canal Museum, (The Regent's Canal, Urban engineering ), retrieved 2008-06-26.〕 to serve Cumberland Market and New Road (now Euston Road), and closed in 1942.〔 ==Cumberland Arm== The Cumberland Arm (or Cumberland Market Branch) was a long stretch of canal that connected Cumberland Basin to the Regent's Canal( which passes through the present site of the car park of London Zoo). The ''Cumberland Turn'' junction with the Regent's Canal is still visible with the short stub-end of the arm remaining housing the ''Feng Shang Floating Restaurant''. In the 1880s, American writer Ellis Martin was touring the London canals, but chose not to enter the basin as an 1850s report described it as "no better than a stagnant putrid ditch", and noted that cholera had spread amongsth nearby neighbourhoods and boat-dwellers. The basin was dammed off in August 1938, and during the Blitz, the arm was used to supply water to fire pumps attending fires through the West End. By 1941, however the arm and basin were filled in with rubble from demolished buildings.〔Inland Waterways Association, (Discovering the Regent's Canal ), retrieved 2006-08-26.〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cumberland Basin (London)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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