The Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN), a network of narrow canals in the industrial midlands of England, is built on various water levels. The three...
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Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country. The BCN is connected...
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drainage basins. Both navigations and canals use engineered structures to improve navigation: weirs and dams to raise river water levels to usable depths;...
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The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is a canal linking Birmingham and Worcester in England. It starts in Worcester, as an 'offshoot' of the River Severn...
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Chasewater (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
(260 km) Birmingham Canal Network. During a period of great industrial growth in the Black Country region the maintenance of water levels in canal infrastructure...
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stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water level can be...
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BCN Main Line (redirect from Birmingham Canal)
The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line is the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England...
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Union Canal. The original line of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal leads to the Digbeth Branch Canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations at the Warwick...
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The Titford Canal (grid reference SO984880) is a narrow (7-foot (2.1 m)) canal, a short branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) in Oldbury, West...
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Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) in 1794. The canal was level from the Birmingham Canal to Sneyd Junction, a distance of 6.4 miles (10.3 km). The main...
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Commons has media related to Canals in the United Kingdom. List of principal navigations London Canal Museum Waterscape Canal & River Trust (former British...
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The Birmingham Canal Navigations. Volume 1: 1768-1846. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6381-6. Burton, Anthony (1995). The Great Days of the...
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1846, the company amalgamated with the Birmingham Canal Navigations and various improvements followed including the Netherton Tunnel. This was of a similar...
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via the junction with the Birmingham Canal at Aldersley. The company obtained a second act of Parliament, the Severn Navigation Act 1790 (30 Geo. 3. c...
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on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of Lichfield, on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles (11.3 km). The branch...
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Main Line of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (the maze of canals between Wolverhampton and Birmingham) and onwards to the Grand Union Canal main line...
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traffic from the River Severn) with the Dudley Canal, and hence, via the Birmingham Canal Navigations, to Birmingham and the Black Country. The Stourbridge...
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NE=North-East etc. now part of the Grand Union Canal Main line, incl old main line and branches part of Birmingham Canal Navigations inclined planes South Yorkshire...
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The Bentley Canal is an abandoned canal that was part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. A very short section still exists where it joins the Wyrley...
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Edgbaston Reservoir (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
supply water to the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Levels of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) canal system: via a culvert and the Engine Arm to the Wolverhampton...
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Stratford-upon-Avon canal connects the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton to the River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. It consists of two sections...
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the Regent's Canal Company and, since 1 January 1929, has formed the southern half of the Grand Union Main Line from London to Birmingham. The canal is...
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The Walsall Canal is a narrow (7 feet or 2.1 metres) canal, seven miles (11 km) long, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and passing around...
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the river navigations to which the canal connected were satisfactory. In the west, the situation was remedied in 1827, on completion of the Gloucester...
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Summit Bridge, Smethwick (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
a canal, built in 1789. It crosses the Old Main Line of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in Smethwick, in the West Midlands, England; it was part of John...
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Wednesbury Oak Loop (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
The Wednesbury Oak Loop, sometimes known as the Bradley Arm, is a canal in the West Midlands, England. It is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations...
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the canal was probably completed in 1840. It was constructed at the 473ft Wolverhampton Level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, as it joined the Dudley...
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The Droitwich Canal is a synthesis of two canals in Worcestershire, England; the Droitwich Barge Canal and the Droitwich Junction Canal. The Barge Canal...
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by the Grundy family from Liverpool. The state of the canal was poor, and several of the locks were disintegrating, but despite low water levels and...
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The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just...
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