Accommodation bridge accessed from the Roman Way Hotel, at eastern limit of public access
Specifications
Locks
21
Status
part extant
History
Date of first use
1841
Date completed
1863
Date closed
1949
Geography
Start point
Calf Heath
End point
Churchbridge
Connects to
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Cannock Extension Canal
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Hatherton Canal (with proposed new link)
Legend
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Autherley Jn, Hatherton Jn, Haywood Jn
Hatherton Basin - moorings
Junction Bridge, Kings Road
1
Calf Heath Bottom Lock
Moorings
2
Calf Heath Top Lock, now dry dock
Dog Bridge 1 (culvert)
M6 motorway (no tunnel)
Oak Lane, Scrawpers End Bridge 2 (lowered)
Feeder to Gailey Reservoir
Saredon Mill Bridge 3
Cross Bridge 4 (lowered)
Catch (Cats) Bridge 5 (culvert)
Feeder from Saredon Brook
3
Meadow Lock
Bridge 7
Limit of walkable towpath
A4601 road, Wedge Mill Bridge
4
Wedge Mill Lock
5
Joveys Lock
Start of bypass
6
Brick Kiln Lock
7
Rosemary Lock
8
Walkmill Lock
Hawkins Colliery and Great Wyrley Basins
Culvert 144 under M6 Toll
Hatherton (Walkmill) Reservoir
6
Reservoir Lock
Chase Line railway bridge
Railway Basin
Proposed link to Lord Hayes Branch
Churchbridge Jn(S&W above, BCN below)
7
New Lock + Churchbridge Branch
David Suchet Tunnel under A5 roundabout
8
Streetway Lock
A5 bridge
9
Watling Street Lock
Hednesford Basin, Cannock Extn Canal
Churchbridge locks (13)
Rumer Hill Junction
10
Holford Lock
11
Gains Lock
Grove Basin + 2004 proposed new route
12
Dark Lane Lock (2009 proposed new route)
13
Pylon Lock
14
Cadman's Lock
Pellsall Junction, Wyrley and Essington Canal
15
Wash Brook Lock
16
Golfers Lock
17
Coliery Lock
Lord Hayes Branch Fishley Bridge
Birchills Jn. Catshill Jn
The Hatherton Canal is a derelict branch of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in south Staffordshire, England. It was constructed in two phases, the first section opening in 1841 and connecting the main line to Churchbridge, from where a tramway connected to the Great Wyrley coal mines. The second section was a joint venture with the 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. The coal traffic was very profitable, and the canal remained in use until 1949. It was formally abandoned in 1955, after which the Churchbridge flight and much of the Extension Canal were destroyed by open cast mining.
Plans for its restoration began in 1975 and the forerunner to the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust was formed in 1989. Since then they have worked hard to protect and restore the canal, which was threatened by the route of the M6 Toll motorway. Negotiations eventually led to the provision of two culverts, one paid for by the Trust and the other by the road builders, which will be used in due course for the route of the re-aligned canal. In 2006, the engineers Arup produced a feasibility study for a replacement route for the destroyed section which would link to Grove Basin on the Cannock Extension Canal. Environmental concerns led to a second feasibility study being produced by Atkins in 2009, for a route which connected to the derelict Lord Hayes Branch on the Wyrley and Essington Canal. A short section near the junction with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is navigable, and the cost of restoring the rest and building the new route to the Wyrley and Essington was estimated at £44.1 million in 2009.
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the Lichfield and HathertonCanals Restoration Trust have been actively engaged in excavating and rebuilding sections of the canal as they have become...
now-derelict HathertonCanal. Continuing south via Coven, it begins to bear away from the Penk, which has its source at Perton, well to the west of the canal. The...
1989, p. 47. "HathertonCanal - an overview". Lichfield and Hatherton CRT. Archived from the original on 13 May 2020. "Anglesey Branch". Canal and River Trust...
rebuild the canal and bring the aqueduct into use. In April 2015, Midland Expressway Limited donated £50,000 to Lichfield and HathertonCanals Restoration...
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M6 Toll motorway, where it cuts the lines of the Lichfield Canal and the HathertonCanal, both of which the Trust wishes to see reopened. He was voted...
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threatened the restoration of the Lichfield Canal, which cut across the motorway's route. The Lichfield and HathertonCanals Restoration Trust campaigned and raised...
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by 1863. A connection was made to the HathertonCanal, a branch of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, at Churchbridge Junction via the Churchbridge...
reference SJ991090) was a canal junction on the Cannock Extension Canal where the Churchbridge Branch left to join the HathertonCanal. The junction, along...
Catshill Junction. The Lichfield and HathertonCanals Restoration Trust has been involved in restoring the Lichfield Canal since its formation in 1988 and...
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more land. The Arboretum was officially opened on 4 May 1874 by Lady Hatherton. The park consisted of two lakes, two lodges, a boathouse, bandstand,...
the Hatherton Branch of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at the same time. Work is known to have begun by November 1839, and the canal was probably...
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who ultimately attained the Peerage of the United Kingdom as the Barons Hatherton, and who helped modernise its agriculture and education system. The Industrial...
Hatherton, a title which remains with the head of the Littleton family to the present, and became an active member of the House of Lords. Hatherton resided...
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