This is a long narrow pocket park next to Paddington Station that may tend to dampness, as it was built on top of an old water reservoir.Long before Paddington Station arrived and this was still on the edges of London, the Grand Junction Canal opened a canal into the area in 1801 to bring goods into the city with a large basin nearby for cargo wharfs. In 1811, the Grand Junction Waterworks Company was created to exploit a clause in the 1798 Act that allowed canals to be built and used as a suppl