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    The Pensnett Canal, also called Lord Ward's Canal was a private 1.25 miles (2 km) long canal near Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England, which opened in...
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    Pensnett is a village of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands County, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Dudley. Pensnett has been a...
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    Dudley Tunnel (category Canal tunnels in England)
    there was once a triple junction, where the Pensnett Canal and the Grazebrook Arm both joined the main canal. This was reinstated in 1995, when the Grazebrook...
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    17th century. Originally established as a settlement in the woodland of Pensnett Chase, it began expanding rapidly following the chase's enclosure in 1748...
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    48028°N 2.13083°W / 52.48028; -2.13083 The Earl of Dudley’s Railway or Pensnett Railway, was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railway that developed...
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    at Pensnett Chase, although little traffic used the canal until the Stourbridge Canal was completed in December of that year. As built, the canal terminated...
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    Pensnett Halt was a small railway stop on the Wombourne Branch Line. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1925 and closed in 1932. The halt served...
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    52°28′59″N 2°05′53″W / 52.483°N 2.098°W / 52.483; -2.098 Pensnett Chase was a wooded area of land owned by the Lords of Dudley Castle in the parishes...
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    of Stourbridge, while a flight of sixteen locks takes the canal up the hill towards Pensnett Chase, where there were collieries. The bottom lock is just...
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    Flatheridge pool. It was made as a canal basin, where coal brought down a railway from Pensnett could be loaded into canal barges. Media related to Ashwood...
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    one end of the Stourbridge Canal, streams and grassy areas. It was created in 1993. The area was once part of Pensnett Chase, a medieval hunting ground...
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    Summit Bridge, Smethwick (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
    Summit Bridge is a road bridge over a canal, built in 1789. It crosses the Old Main Line of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in Smethwick, in the West...
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    still numerous large industrial sites around the borough, such as the Pensnett Trading Estate, with the manufacturing industries making up 15.3% of employment...
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    Stourbridge Extension Canal, which itself was eventually removed. Only two platforms and a single line from Bromley Halt to Pensnett Halt and Kingswinford...
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    Ridgacre Spon Lane Locks Canals BCN Main Line Bentley Birmingham and Fazeley Birmingham Canal Navigations Dudley Engine Arm Pensnett Rushall Tame Valley Tipton...
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    stub of the line will re-open to serve the Pensnett Trading Estate once again. The section north of Pensnett closed is now utilised as - The South Staffordshire...
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    Fens Pools (category Canal reservoirs in England)
    leaving the Dudley Canal, with which the Stourbridge Canal made an end-on junction in 1792. The area is situated between Pensnett and Brierley Hill in...
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    Staffordshire, published in 1686, the naturalist Dr Robert Plot wrote: "in Pensnett Chase South from Dudley about a mile and a half there is another weak brine...
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    Charles. p. 73. ISBN 0715359959. Gale, W.K.V. (1975). A History of the Pensnett Railway. Cambridge: Goose and Son. ISBN 0900404280. Bailey, Michael R....
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    point where a brook crossed the Baptist End Road, near the boundary of Pensnett Chase, a partially wooded common. Netherton is mentioned in legal records...
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  • by John Bradley & Co until around 1937. The land now forms part of the Pensnett Trading Estate. In 1919 the Stourbridge Iron Works were sold to a company...
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    Ridgacre Spon Lane Locks Canals BCN Main Line Bentley Birmingham and Fazeley Birmingham Canal Navigations Dudley Engine Arm Pensnett Rushall Tame Valley Tipton...
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    along its entirety and runs for approximately half a mile B4179 A4101 in Pensnett, West Midlands A461 in Brierley Hill Town Centre Previously continued along...
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    method of smelting Iron ore using coke at his father's works in Cradley and Pensnett Chase, though his trade was unsuccessful due to circumstances of the time...
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    Headquarters and Control Room of West Midlands Ambulance Service. The Dudley No.1 Canal passes through The Waterfront and along the edge of the shopping centre...
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    to the Dudley Canal and two railway systems: the public railway run by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the Pensnett Railway, a mineral...
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  • Kingswinford to a canal basin at Bromley. The branch was about a mile long. It was later extended to the Earl of Dudley's Railway at Pensnett. The Oxford,...
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    opened in 1925 but closed in 1932 with the line ceasing operations between Pensnett and Wolverhampton. The line is now the South Staffordshire Railway Walk...
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    include Silver Jubilee Park, St Chad's Church, the Old Windmill, and Coseley Canal Tunnel. Hurst Hill – situated in the west of Coseley near Sedgley, contains...
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    closure of the line between Round Oak and Walsall in 1993 and the branch to Pensnett a year later. A signal box situated in the vicinity of the station was...
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