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Walsall Canal

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on 17 April 1794 to extend the canal from Broadwaters to Walsall. It allowed the Company to borrow £45,000, with which to construct the canal to Walsall and three branches to serve iron-stone and coal mines in the locality, all to be completed within three years. Construction began at Broadwaters and
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The small gap between the Birmingham Canal Navigations line to Walsall and the Wyrley and Essington Canal's Birchills Branch was of concern to businessmen to the north of Walsall, whose access to the south was by a very circuitous route. An independent canal to link the two was planned, but in 1839
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Meanwhile from the other direction, the Birchills Branch of the Wyrley and Essington Canal reached Bloxwich Wharf to the north-west of Walsall by 1798. (Much of this branch from Sneyd Junction was later subsumed into the new mainline of the Wyrley and Essington, when that canal was extended towards
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What was by then known as the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company (soon to be incorporated as the Birmingham Canal Navigations Company) was authorised by the combined company's sixth
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the BCN agreed to build a connection. The Walsall Junction Canal was completed in March 1841, its 0.6 miles (0.97 km) containing eight locks and completing the through route.
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reached Darlaston by May 1798. The second phase of construction began in April 1798: excavation was completed in 1799 but the job remained unfinished in 1800.
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The canal was built in four distinct stages. It started life as the Broadwaters Extension to the Wednesbury Canal which opened in 1785 to serve collieries in
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just south of junction 10. The very short Walsall Town Arm at Walsall Junction leads into Walsall itself while the main canal rises through eight
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and the very short Ocker Hill Tunnel Branch, now private moorings, which fed water to the Ocker Hill pumps to replenish the
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factory (these gates have now been resited to a traffic island by the bus station in Wednesbury). It then passes the short
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line, and passes the short Bradley Branch at Moorcroft Junction. In this area it passes the site of huge iron gates of the
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is a narrow (7 feet or 2.1 metres) canal, seven miles (11 km) long, forming part of the
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Huddlesford, leaving about 700 metres (2,300 ft) of the Birchills Branch as a stub.)
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and immediately drops through the eight Ryders Green Locks to the 408-foot (124 m)
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Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain
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A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland
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The canal runs from Ryders Green Junction where it meets the
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The Illustrated History of Canal & River Navigations
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Birmingham and the Black Country's Canalside Industries
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Birmingham and the Black Country's Canalside Industries
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Birmingham and the Black Country's Canalside Industries
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Birmingham and the Black Country's Canalside Industries
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Gospel Oak Junction (Walsall canal runs left and right)
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Ocker Hill Branch pumped from Ocker Hill Tunnel Branch
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The Birmingham Canal Navigations, Vol. 1 1768 - 1846
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1155:Coordinates 1080:M6 motorway 311:M6 motorway 85:Connects to 72:Date of act 2630:Categories 2600:52°35′05″N 2390:Chasewater 2383:Reservoirs 2177:Engine Arm 1828:References 1635: ( 1613:52°35′55″N 1581: ( 1559:52°35′05″N 1523: ( 1501:52°34′39″N 1469: ( 1447:52°33′15″N 1418: ( 1396:52°32′57″N 1364: ( 1342:52°32′24″N 1310: ( 1288:52°32′22″N 1256: ( 1234:52°32′14″N 1202: ( 1180:52°31′22″N 1134:John Snape 2603:1°59′34″W 2430:Aqueducts 2287:Junctions 2202:Soho Loop 2140:Navigable 1648:SK002000 1616:1°59′52″W 1594:SP005986 1562:1°59′34″W 1536:SO986977 1504:2°01′20″W 1482:SO972951 1450:2°02′28″W 1431:SO975945 1399:2°02′13″W 1377:SO976935 1345:2°02′07″W 1323:SO976934 1291:2°02′09″W 1269:SO976932 1237:2°02′08″W 1215:SO985916 1183:2°01′20″W 332:Aqueduct 80:Geography 62:Navigable 1781:See also 2409:Tunnels 1660:Gallery 1109:History 122:England 114:Walsall 67:History 2509:Basins 2043:  2018:  1992:  1967:  1941:  1915:  1875:  1849:  1166:Notes 1151:Point 1115:Moxley 171:Legend 59:Status 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Index


Wyrley and Essington Canal
Wednesbury Old Canal
Birmingham Canal Navigations
Walsall
West Midlands
England
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Legend
Birchills Junction
Wyrley and Essington Canal
Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway
M6 motorway
Anson Branch
Bentley Canal
Grand Junction Railway
Bradley Branch
Wednesbury Oak Loop
West Midlands Metro
Tame Valley Junction
Tame Valley Canal
Toll End Communication Canal
South Staffordshire line
Ridgacre Branch
Wednesbury Old Canal
BCN New Main Line (Island Line)
Wednesbury Old Canal
Walsall Level

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