Rushall Canal
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The Rushall Canal is a straight, Script error: No such module "convert"., narrow canal suitable for boats which are Script error: No such module "convert". wide, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) on the eastern side of Walsall, West Midlands, England.
Route
The Rushall Canal runs from Rushall Junction (which is within the triangle formed by the flyovers of the junction of the M5 and M6 motorways) on the Tame Valley Canal and climbs due north through nine locks to Longwood Junction at Hay Head, where it joins the Script error: No such module "convert". long Daw End Branch, a meandering, lock-free branch of the Wyrley and Essington Canal (W&E) which joins the main W&E at Catshill Junction near Brownhills. A short, non-navigable, arm at Longwood Junction leads to Hay Head Nature Reserve, which was once an area of limestone mines.
History
The canal was built in the, then, county of Staffordshire under an act of parliament of April 1844 (four years after the merger of the BCN and W&E) to connect the Daw End Branch to The Tame Valley Canal to take coal from Cannock mines to Birmingham and the Black Country. The engineer was James Walker. It was specified to be Script error: No such module "convert". wide with towpaths on both sides. The towpaths were to be Script error: No such module "convert". wide, but only one of them (on the west side) was constructed. It was completed 1847.[1]
Points of interest
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| Longwood Junction | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "If empty". | Continues as the Daw End Branch |
| Rushall top lock 1 | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "If empty". | |
| Rushall bottom lock 9 | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "If empty". | |
| Rushall Junction | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "If empty". |
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See also
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References
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