Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.

Tame Valley Canal

Description: Runs from the junction with the Walsall Canal to Salford Junction, where it joins the Birmingham and Fazeley and the Grand Union (Warwick Section).

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 :

Perry Bar Locks, Tame Valley Canal

Related Books

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

Related photographs

• Tame Valley Canal: Perry Barr Top Lock No 1 Narrowboat coming up flight

Related Cruising Logs

• 20th 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

Tame Valley Canal: Table of distances			Miles	Locks	Navigable (N)	Grid ref	OS Map No
Walsall Canal	Junction with Walsall Canal		0	0	N	SO976936	139
Gold Hill Wharf			0.4	0	N	SO985937	139
Holloway Bank Wharf			1	0	N	SO992941	139
Rushall Junction	Junction with Rushall Canal (BCN) Rushall Canal		3.5	0	N	SP030947	139
Hamstead Wharf			4.4	0	N	SP038936	139
Perry Barr Top Lock No 1	Barr Top Lock Wharf and Perry Bar First Flight.		5.5	1	N	SP061927	139
Perry Bar Lock No 7	End of first flight		6	7	N	SP069927	139
Perry Bar Lock No 8	Start of the second flight		6.3	8	N	SP071926	139
Perry Barr Lock No 11	End of second flight		6.5	12	N	SP077923	139
Perry Barr Lock No 12	Start of third flight		7.9	13	N	SP089907	139
Salford Junction	Junctions with Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and Grand Union Main Line Junction with the Grand Union (Warwick Section) and the Birmingham and Fazley Canals.		8.5	14	N	SP097900	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.