If all those canal walks sounded too much like hard work then why not try the walking the shortest canal in London?
The Grosvenor Canal must be just under 200 m in length and is very handy, being close to Victoria Station. It used to go all the way but has been progressively filled in so that only the section nearest the Thames remains, surrounded by the inevitable blocks of luxury apartments (above).
The entrance to the Thames and final locks can be seen below:
From the Thames little is to be seen, just shadow underneath Grosvenor Road built along London Embankment:
It was actually the last canal to be used for commercial traffic and wasn't the shortest ever built in London, which was in Wandwsorth.
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