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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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    Reserve. The canal was built to allow transport of coal from coal mines near Wyrley, Essington and New Invention to Wolverhampton and Walsall, but also carried...
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    joins the Wyrley and Essington Canal in Wolverhampton. From there it headed generally southeast through Willenhall and Walsall and connected with the Anson...
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    Essington Canal was incorporated by the Birmingham Canal Navigation Act 1792 which authorized the line from Wolverhampton to Sneyd Junction and Walsall. The...
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    of both Aldridge and Walsall. It is located between Aldridge and Walsall Wood. It is also bordered by the Daw End Branch Canal, separating it from the...
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    coalfields at Walsall did not have canal access, and a public meeting was held at Lichfield on 18 August to discuss an independent link from Walsall to Fradley...
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    the west window of St Matthew's Church. Walsall finally received a railway line in 1847, 48 years after canals reached the town, Bescot having been served...
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    Darlaston (category Metropolitan Borough of Walsall)
    town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It is located near Bilston, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Willenhall...
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    from the roughly-parallel River Tame. The canal runs from Tame Valley Junction where it joins the Walsall Canal near Ocker Hill and Toll End, and terminates...
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  • chemical spillage of sodium cyanide into a canal in Walsall, West Midlands. A 12-mile stretch of the canal is closed while emergency services deal with...
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    the West Midlands, England. It is close to the borders of Sandwell and Walsall. The nearest towns are Darlaston, Wednesbury, and Willenhall. Historically...
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  • to: Tame Valley Canal, a canal in the English Midlands Tame Valley Junction, junction where the Tame Valley Canal meets the Walsall Canal Tame Valley, geographical...
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    Chase Line (redirect from Walsall Line)
    England. It runs from its southern terminus, Birmingham New Street, to Walsall, and then Rugeley Trent Valley in Staffordshire, where it joins the Trent...
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    Darlaston Green (category Metropolitan Borough of Walsall)
    Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands county of England. It is located to the north of Darlaston town centre and borders the Walsall Canal, the area...
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    The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation)...
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  • of the main A34 road that links Birmingham with Walsall, and straddles the Tame Valley Canal. The canal passes through Tower Hill in a deep cutting in...
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    The Canal & River Trust (CRT), branded as Glandŵr Cymru in Wales, holds the guardianship of 2,000 miles of canals and rivers, together with reservoirs...
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    Brownhills (category Metropolitan Borough of Walsall)
    is a historic market and industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall of the West Midlands, England. The town is located south of Cannock Chase...
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    Birchills Junction (category Transport in Walsall)
    the canal junction at the northern limit of what is now called the Walsall Canal where it meets the Wyrley and Essington Canal main line, near Walsall, West...
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    to the Walsall Canal. A short stub beyond Ryder's Green Junction is connected to the network but difficult to navigate. Wednesbury Old Canal leaves the...
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    The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery in the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. It was built with £21 million...
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    Tame Valley Junction (category Canal junctions in England)
    Bank Junction, is a canal junction at the western limit of the Tame Valley Canal where it meets the Walsall Canal, south of Walsall, in the West Midlands...
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    would run to Birchills, near Walsall. In 1794, the company obtained a second act of Parliament, the Wyrley and Essington Canal Act 1794 (34 Geo. 3. c. 25)...
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    opened at Ocker Hill in 1784 to re-circulate water from the nearby Walsall Canal. The Ocker Hill Tunnel Branch brought water to the pumps through a tunnel...
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    Nottingham and Walsall canals. The Inland Waterways Association detected a softening in official attitudes towards revival of the canal network. Nevertheless...
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    Branch Canal. This section of the Monarch's Way follows the canal system through the heart of the Black Country using Walsall Canal, Wednesbury Old Canal, Netherton...
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  • of clay for the manufacture of bricks by Joseph Hamblett's firm. The Walsall Canal runs through the area. As part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations in...
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    lock to Smethwick locks, 11.6 miles Walsall Branch Canal to Walsall top lock, 0.4 miles Wyrley and Essington Canal 15.4 miles, + branches: Lord Hay's Branch...
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  • at Birmingham Airport. He then followed up sightings of otters in a Walsall canal, but although his team found traces of the animals, they didn't manage...
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    A41 road (category Transport in Walsall)
    (for Dudley) at Great Bridge, it overlaps the A461 (to Walsall), crosses the Tame Valley Canal, meets the A4037 at a roundabout and goes under the West...
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