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Dudley Canal Line No 2

Description: Runs from Parkhead Junction, with the Dudley Canal Line No 1, to Coombeswood. The canal originally went on to join the Worcester & Birmingham Canal at Selly Oak. The closed section contains the 3,795 yard Lappal Tunnel.

History: This extension to the Dudley Canal was authorised in 1793 and completed in 1798.
For more details see the History page.

Waterway Group: This waterway is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations

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

• Nicholson/Ordnance Survey Guide to the waterways - 2 by Not known, ISBN: 978-0-00-728161-9, 170 pages, Published by Nicholson, in 2009, Severn, Avon and Birmingham. Includes the BCN, Gloucester & Sharpness, Severn, Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, Stourbridge, Dudley, Stratford-on-Avon and Worcester & Birmingham canals.. Order now from .
• Pearson's Canal Companion: Stourport Ring by Michael Pearson, Edition: Seventh, ISBN: 0 9078 6470 8, 96 pages, Published by J M Pearson & Son, Includes Birmingham Canal navigations and Black Country canals. Order now from .
• The Canals of the West Midlands (2nd Ed) by Charles Hadfield, 352 pages, Published by Augustus M Kelley, in 1969,

Related External Web Sites

• Lapal Canal The Lapal Canal Trust, PO Box 5236, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 3NN, UK.
• IWA's 1996 National Rally Trip on the Canals by Narrowboat to the IWA's National Rally at Windmill End, Netherton/Dudley.

Related Cruising Logs

• 23rd August 1996

Other Related Pages

• Cruising Times

Lock Sizes and maximum craft dimensions: Length 70 foot, beam 7 foot. NOTE: For more details of maximum lock and craft sizes and the basis of these figures see Craft and Lock Sizes Page

Dudley Canal Line No 2: Table of distances			Miles	Locks	Navigable (N)	Grid ref	OS Map No
Park Head Junction	Junction with Dudley Canal Line No 1 Junction with the Dudley Canal Line No 1.		0	0	N	SO933888	139
Blackbrook Junction	Junction with the closed Two Lock Line Canal.		0.8	0	N	SO933879	139
Primrose Hill Wharf			1.6	0	N	SO944873	139
Southern Junction with Bumble Hole Branch Canal			2.4	0	N	SO951880	139
Windmill End Junction	Junction with Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal Junction with the Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal. Northern Junction with the Bumble Hole Branch Canal (now closed).		2.6	0	N	SO953882	139
Rowley Wharf			4	0	N	SO961865	139
Gosty Hill Tunnel (North end)	Old Hill		4.4	0	N	SO966858	139
Coombeswood	The end of navigation		5	0	U	SO972850	139

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.