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    The current Cannock Extension Canal is a 1.8-mile (2.9 km) canal in England. It runs from Pelsall Junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal, north to Norton...
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    the Cannock Extension Canal and the Wyrley Bank extension cost over £100,000. Water supply for the Wyrley and Essington came from the Cannock reservoir...
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    Birmingham Canal Navigations, and linked Churchbridge to the Cannock Extension Canal by a flight of 13 locks, which were opened with the Extension Canal in 1863...
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    87). This amalgamated with the Birmingham Canal Navigations in 1840. In 1855, the Cannock Extension Canal and the Wyrley Bank Branch were added to the...
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    Rumer Hill Junction (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
    reference SJ991090) was a canal junction on the Cannock Extension Canal where the Churchbridge Branch left to join the Hatherton Canal. The junction, along...
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    North Lanes, Staffordshire (category Cannock Chase District)
    It is the location of the former colliery from where a canal basin of the Cannock Extension Canal is located, and sits above multiple mineshafts. The name...
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    Pelsall Junction (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
    reference SK018044) is a canal junction at the southern limit of the Cannock Extension Canal where it meets the Wyrley and Essington Canal main line, near Pelsall...
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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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    Branch Canal to Walsall top lock, 0.4 miles Wyrley and Essington Canal 15.4 miles, + branches: Lord Hay's Branch (now dry) Cannock Extension Canal, 1.8...
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    1852 as Wyrley Grove Colliery. It was served by barges on the Cannock Extension Canal until the arrival of a mineral line from Norton Junction. In 1930...
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    Pelsall (category Cannock Chase)
    around the common include: The Cannock Extension Canal - A partially disused canal that connected Pelsall to Cannock. It now only runs from the junction...
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  • Rumer Hill Junction, a canal junction on the Cannock Extension Canal where the Churchbridge Branch left to join the Hatherton Canal, England Rumor, spelled...
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  • The Cannock Mineral Railway was a railway company that built a line from Cannock (Staffordshire,) to join the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) at...
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    Catshill Junction (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
    obtained a second Act in 1794, before the original canal was completed, which authorised an extension eastwards from Birchills, passing through Pelsall...
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    Act 1947 nationalised Britain's canals on 1 January 1948. In its latter years the major trade was in coal from Cannock to a power station at Stourport...
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    related to Canal junctions in the United Kingdom. Junction (canal) Canals of Great Britain History of the British canal system List of canal aqueducts...
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    until 1800, with the building of Cannock Chase reservoir, Chasewater. Although not prosperous, the Wyrley and Essington Canal Company made enough profit to...
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    Birchills Junction (category Birmingham Canal Navigations)
    SK002000) is 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...
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  • Moss Burnham Beeches Butser Hill Calf Hill and Cragg Woods Cannock Chase Cannock Extension Canal Carrine Common Castle Eden Dene Castle Hill Cerne and Sydling...
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  • Hurst Brownend Quarry Burnt Wood Caldon Dales Caldon Low Cannock Chase Cannock Extension Canal Castern Wood Cauldon Railway Cutting Chartley Moss Chasewater...
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  • village on Cannock Chase in the south of Staffordshire standing nearly 800 feet above sea-level, literally overlooking Hednesford, Cannock, Walsall and...
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  • Walsall to Cannock, which was becoming an important centre of extractive industry. The SSR did not progress this work at the time, but got an extension of time...
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    Chasewater (category Canal reservoirs in England)
    Staffordshire, England. Originally known as Norton Pool and Cannock Chase Reservoir, it was created as a canal feeder reservoir in 1797. The reservoir was created...
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    and W&E) to connect the Daw End Branch to The Tame Valley Canal to take coal from Cannock mines to Birmingham and the Black Country. The engineer was...
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    Chadsmoor (category Cannock Chase District)
    on the Cannock Extension Line and this served as a base to move the produced coal direct to its sale areas such as Birmingham & London. The canal closed...
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    areas, including part of Cannock Chase, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The neighbouring districts are Cannock Chase, Stafford, East Staffordshire...
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    Arriva), provides an hourly link to Essington, Great Wyrley and Cannock An extension of the West Midlands Metro through Wednesfield is planned, on the...
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    Cannock railway station serves the town of Cannock in the Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England. It is situated on the Chase Line. The station and all...
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    Hednesford railway station (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Midlands Railway. The station was opened in 1859 on the Cannock Mineral Railway's line from Cannock to Rugeley Town and taken over by the London and North...
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    Rough Wood (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    is currently Walsall all the way to the woodland that is now known as Cannock Chase. The woodland resides on top of the Bentley Seam of coal which runs...
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