A short section at the eastern end acts as moorings
Specifications
Locks
30
Status
active restoration project
History
Original owner
Wyrley and Essington Canal Company
Date of act
1794
Date completed
1797
Date closed
1955
Geography
Start point
Huddleford Jn, Coventry Canal
End point
Ogley Junction, Brownhills
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Lichfield Canal
Legend
Coventry Canal, Huddlesford Jn
Moorings
Watery Lane Bridge
Cappers Lane Bridge
30
Darnford Lift Bridge
29
Old lock
Darnford Lane Bridge
29
New lock
A38 road bridge
27-28
A51 Tamworth Road Bridge
26
Tamworth Road locks
Borrowcop Locks Canal Park
25
Millennium lock
24
Tamworth Road locks
Cricket Lane bridge
A5206 London Road Bridge
22-23
Birmingham Railway bridge
A5127 Birmingham Road Bridge
20
old lock 20
19-21
19
Old lock 19
18
Ogley 3rd flight
Fosseway Lane Bridge
13-17
Ogley 3rd flight
Wall Lane Bridge
A461 Pipehill Bridge
Coppice Lane bridge
12
Ogley 2nd flight
A461 Moat Bank Bridge
10-11
Ogley 2nd flight
9
Ogley 2nd flight old lock 9
A5 Watling Street Bridge
9a
New lock 9a
A461 Boat Bridge
9b
New lock 9b
8
New lock 8
M6 Toll aqueduct
8
Ogley 1st flight old lock 8
1-7
Ogley 1st flight
Anglesey Bridge marina
Wyrley and Essington, Ogley Jn
The Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction at Brownhills on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of Lichfield, on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles (11.3 km). The branch was abandoned in 1955, along with several other branches of the Wyrley and Essington, and much of it was filled in.
Restoration plans were first voiced in 1975, and since 1990, the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust have been actively engaged in excavating and rebuilding sections of the canal as they have become available. Major projects have included an isolated aqueduct over the M6 Toll motorway, ready for when the canal reaches it.
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the new M6 Toll motorway, where it cuts the lines of the LichfieldCanal and the Hatherton Canal, both of which the Trust wishes to see reopened. He was...
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threatened the restoration of the LichfieldCanal, which cut across the motorway's route. The Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust campaigned and...
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the longest canal aqueduct in the world for a century. Following construction of the M6 Toll Motorway the building of the LichfieldCanal Aqueduct ran...
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Lichfield District (UK: /ˈlɪtʃˌfiːld/) is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. The district is named after its largest settlement, the...
near Lichfield). The line of the Wyrley and Essington Canal which passes through the site of Ogley Junction was part of a revised plan for the canal. As...
the time, the coalfields at Walsall did not have canal access, and a public meeting was held at Lichfield on 18 August to discuss an independent link from...
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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...
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Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lichfield in Staffordshire, formerly Mid Staffordshire, since 1992. Fabricant was...
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district of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. Originally known as Norton Pool and Cannock Chase Reservoir, it was created as a canal feeder reservoir...
30 locks on its route past Lichfield to reach Huddlesford Junction. This was on a route authorised by the Coventry Canal Act 1768 (8 Geo. 3. c. 36),...
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