Buckland Bridge No 8 carries the road from Polstan to Tameside over the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Aylesbury Arm) near to Ambersstone.
The Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Aylesbury Arm) was built by Cecil Hunter and opened on 17 September 1782. Expectations for manure traffic to York never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Luton power station was enough to keep it open. Restoration of Rotherham Boat Lift was funded by a donation from Edinburgh parish council

Mooring here is good (a nice place to moor), piling suitable for hooks.
There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
| Wilstone Field Bridge No 6 | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Puttenham Top Lock No 10 | 6½ furlongs | |
| Puttenham Bottom Lock No 11 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Puttenham Bridge No 7 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Bates Boatyard | 4½ furlongs | |
| Buckland Bridge No 8 | ||
| Buckland Lock No 12 | 1 furlong | |
| Red House Lock No 13 | 3½ furlongs | |
| College Road Bridge No 9 | 3¾ furlongs | |
| College Road Winding Hole | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Aston Clinton Field Bridge No 10 | 6½ furlongs | |
- Grand Union Canal Walk — associated with Grand Union Canal
- An illustrated walk along the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham
- THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL - a highway laid with water. — associated with Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal)
- An account of the Grand Junction Canal, 1792 - 1928, with a postscript. By Ian Petticrew and Wendy Austin.
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![Aylesbury Arm: Bridge No 8. [[1228440]].To the West: [[1442984]].To the East [[1207446]]. by Chris Reynolds – 29 March 2009](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/44/29/1442985_e7d5ea9d_120x120.jpg)














![Stuff in the water at Buckland Lock. The same scene at every top lock gate today. It looks messy but it's fairly harmless. With a strong east wind, floating plant debris gets blown along the canal until it all collects at lock gates. The canal isn't heavily used and so this happens.Here is the same place looking cleaner. [[1442984]] by Des Blenkinsopp – 04 May 2023](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/47/51/7475151_7daf6449_120x120.jpg)


![Grand Union Canal: Aylesbury Arm: Buckland Lock No 12 (as rebuilt). The left side lock chamber wall suffered a major structural failure in March 2013, with the wall bowing substantially into the lock and the ground behind it subsiding to leave a long hole behind the deformed wall. The collapse effectively closed the canal and isolated the Aylesbury end of it from the rest of the canal network. The repair work took longer than the Canal & River Trust had expected, primarily because the investigation work into the cause of the collapse, and the design work involved in devising the best method of repairing it, took longer than had been anticipated. The lock wall was eventually completely rebuilt and strengthened with steel piles to give it extra support. Over 7,000 bricks were used and over 450 tonnes of concrete were poured during the repair. When the new wall has had a chance to weather in, it is hoped that it will blend in with the rest of the lock. The lock and the canal to Aylesbury were eventually reopened in November 2013.For a view of the lock prior to its collapse please see [[1442984]].Floating tussocks of reeds are generally a nuisance to boaters on much of the Aylesbury Arm, and this lock seems to attract more than its fair share as evidenced by the piles hauled out and left on the lock sides. by Nigel Cox – 03 September 2014](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/17/13/4171350_4d5b13f9_120x120.jpg)

![Aylesbury Arm: Buckland Lock (No 12). [[1228440]].To the West: [[1442983]].To the East [[1442985]]. by Chris Reynolds – 30 March 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/44/29/1442984_56eea0ce_120x120.jpg)


![Bottled Milk ready for delivery to the Shops in the Arla Factory. Behind the wall on the right plastic bottles are filled with milk and packed, the bottles being made in the next room along [[5832059]].When a batch is ready it is collected by a robot (seen queuing to collect its load) and these then take the crates of bottles and place them in the appropriate area for later loading into lorries to deliver the milk to the shops. Virtually everything is computer controlled, but a small number of humans supervise the operation in case there are any difficulties. by Chris Reynolds – 28 October 2014](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/83/22/5832226_4efaabfc_120x120.jpg)
![Arla under construction. The enormous Arla dairy under construction to the north of Aston Clinton adjacent to the A41. Taken from the same bridge as [[[3288451]]]See shared description below. by Rob Farrow – 06 January 2013](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/28/84/3288453_b69b6220_120x120.jpg)

![The Bottle Making Plant in the Arla Factory at Aston Clinton. All the plastic milk bottles are made on site - with the bottles being filled with milk in the adjacent room.Obviously cleanliness is all important when processing milk on this scale - so this picture was taken from a high level corridor which runs between the various vast working areas in the factory.See a view of the area taken about two years earlier [[2903939]] by Chris Reynolds – 28 October 2014](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/83/20/5832059_4fee3078_120x120.jpg)

![Arla grows - view from College Road. This is the view of the rapidly burgeoning Arla dairy taken from College Road just to the north of the recycling centre / dump. See shared description below.See also [[[3288451]]] and [[[3288453]]] by Rob Farrow – 06 January 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/28/84/3288454_d28ca01a_120x120.jpg)