It is situated in the northern dock system in Vauxhall and connected to Salisbury Dock to the north.

[4] During the early 1990s, most of the dock basin was used as a designated landfill site.

This has left only a section of the northern part of the dock and a narrow channel along the eastern dock wall.

In 2007, work began on a £20 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further 1.4 mi (2.3 km) of navigable waterway.

[6] A new 6.5 m (21 ft)-wide channel was excavated through Trafalgar Dock to the northern end of West Waterloo Dock as part of the canal route.