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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Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country. The BCN is...
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opened in 1854, which linked Droitwich to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. Both were built to carry salt, and were abandoned in 1939. They have been the...
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Gas Street Basin (redirect from Worcester Bar)
(grid reference SP062866) is a canal basin in the centre of Birmingham, England, where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal meets the BCN Main Line. It is...
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Tardebigge (section Worcester and Birmingham Canal)
famous for the Tardebigge Locks, a flight of 30 canal locks that raise the Worcester and Birmingham Canal over 220 feet (67 metres) over the Lickey Ridge...
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reach the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. This was completed in 1798 but significant trade had to wait until the Worcester and Birmingham was completed...
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The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between...
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Prehistoric evidence, Roman roads, and Anglo-Saxon charters contribute to its history. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the railways brought industry...
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Kings Norton Junction (category Worcester and Birmingham Canal)
of the canal junction where the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal terminates and meets the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton, Birmingham, England...
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Wast Hill Tunnel (category Worcester and Birmingham Canal)
Wast Hill Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. Its northern portal is in Hawkesley, Birmingham. Its southern portal is in fields...
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Selly Oak (redirect from Selly Oak, Birmingham)
is connected to Birmingham by the Pershore Road (A441) and the Bristol Road (A38). The Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Cross-City Railway...
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Avon Ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
are: River Avon River Severn Worcester and Birmingham Canal Stratford-on-Avon Canal Starting from Stratford-upon-Avon, and travelling in a clockwise direction...
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River Severn (section Associated canals)
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, (both narrow beam) and the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal join the Severn...
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the BCN New Main Line Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, at the junction of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the BCN Main Line Tividale Quays Basin,...
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located south of Birmingham, on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The settlement is developed around an inn, where users of the canal would have broken...
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Diglis Basin (category Worcester and Birmingham Canal)
Diglis Basin is a canal basin on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. It is situated in Diglis in the centre of Worcester, England, near The Commandery...
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trans-shipped from the canal narrow boats to the trows for onward shipment to Bristol. Trade declined when the newer Worcester and Birmingham Canal was opened in...
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(175 km) long, and includes 129 locks. From Tewkesbury it follows the course of the River Severn, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Stratford-upon-Avon...
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to Birmingham New Street railway station. Previously the location of a railway goods yard with canal wharves off the Worcester and Birmingham Canal leading...
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here it links to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, which connects Worcester with Birmingham and the rest of the national canal network. Historically...
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Tardebigge Locks (category Worcester and Birmingham Canal)
two-and-a-quarter-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge, Worcestershire. It raises the waterway 220 feet (67 m), and lies...
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Canal, the Birmingham Canal, the Wyrley and Essington Canal, the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, the Staffordshire and...
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The Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove line is a railway line in the West Midlands of England connecting Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove. The...
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Canal, Dudley Canals, Birmingham Canal Navigations (Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal and Birmingham New Main Line), Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The ring...
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The Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line is a railway line which runs from Birmingham Snow Hill to Worcester via Stourbridge and Kidderminster...
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and responsibility for it was transferred to British Waterways in 1988. The Stratford-upon-Avon canal connects the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at...
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Kings Norton Stop Lock (category Stratford-upon-Avon Canal)
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal near its junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. It is the only guillotine-gated stop-lock on a canal. This stop lock...
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in Birmingham include: Birmingham Canal Navigations network, including the BCN Main Line and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Worcester & Birmingham Canal...
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Warwickshire ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
Union Canal to Salford Junction, where it joins the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and the other follows the Stratford Canal (north) and Worcester and Birmingham...
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Stourport Ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
Branch Canal and Birmingham New Main Line) and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The ring is 74 miles and includes 105 locks including 3 electrically...
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