The basin contains a number of residential moorings.

It is the site of the London Canal Museum, opened in 1992, the London offices of academic publisher Springer Nature Group, and Kings Place development completed in 2008 and home to The Guardian.

Sixteen Moorings along the southside are part of the London Narrowboat Company,[1] and further moorings to the East side Ice Wharf, Run by the Canal & River Trust.

The basin was constructed in 1820 at the same time as the second half of the canal from Camden Town to Limehouse, though the wharf buildings were not completed until 1822.

The canal museum buildings were used in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century for the storage of ice from Norway and its distribution to the surrounding area.