Little Venice

This guide to Little Venice in London starts at the quiet junction where three canal waterways meet beneath white stucco townhouses, and asks who actually gave the spot its name. The usual answer points to the poet Robert Browning, who lived nearby for decades, but a 1966 letter to the Daily Telegraph named Lord Byron instead. You'll also hear what the Regent's Canal carried through here for over a century, and about a gunpowder barge that once went off nearby. Worth lingering on the towpath rather than rushing past.