Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.

Anglesey Branch

Description: The branch forms northern most part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and ends at Anglesey Basin, once a centre of coal mining but now providing a quiet, semi-rural, mooring.

Waterway Group: This waterway is part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal (BCN)

Navigation Authority: MD's Office: Southern Waterways, General Manager: Central Shires Waterways, Peel's Wharf, Lichfield Street, Fazeley, Tamworth, Staffordshire B78 3QZ : Telephone 01827 252000 : Fax 01827 288071 :

Related Books

• The Canals of the West Midlands (2nd Ed) by Charles Hadfield, 352 pages, Published by Augustus M Kelley, in 1969,

Related videos

• Last Coal Run from Anglesey , Released in 2002, 35 minutes Produced by IA Recordings, A re-enactment of the last coal run in the 1960s. Available on tape. Order on video tape from

Anglesey Branch: Table of distances			Miles	Locks	Navigable (N)	Grid ref	OS Map No
Ogley Junction	Junction with Wyrley and Essington Canal (BCN)		0	0	N	SK057059	0
Anglesey Basin	Junction with		0	0	N		0

NOTE: N and U in the Navigable column above indicates that the node is navigable or unnavigable. If a D appears here it means that navigation is difficult or restricted to smaller craft.

 

Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.