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Dist:0.1km<br/>Harris Bridge, No 58 on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, is a farmer's accommodation bridge with no public right of way.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Bridge No 58 on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, this is a farmer's accommodation bridge with no public right of way across it.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.1km<br/>Known as Harris Bridge, this is a farmer's accommodation bridge with no public right of way across it. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged through the tunnels near Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Later, salt carrying was added as a regular cargo. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the tunnels near Birmingham. The canal travels through some very pleasant countryside, climbing from the Severn through rolling fields and wooded cuttings and slicing through a hilly ridge south of Birmingham. There are fifty-eight locks and four tunnels on the canal.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen from the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. Oxleasows Farm is distant, on the skyline.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Later, salt carrying was added as a regular cargo. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the tunnels near Birmingham. The canal travels through some very pleasant countryside, climbing from the Severn through rolling fields and wooded cuttings and slicing through a hilly ridge south of Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Later, salt carrying was added as a regular cargo. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the tunnels near Birmingham. The canal travels through some very pleasant countryside, climbing from the Severn through rolling fields and wooded cuttings and slicing through a hilly ridge south of Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was built in stages between 1791 and 1815 to connect the River Severn in Worcester to the Birmingham Canal System using a quicker route than the earlier Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Opposition from other canal companies meant that for twenty years there was no direct connection in Birmingham, the last two and a bit metres of canal there being left uncompleted in 1795. http://wikimapia.org/78582/Worcester-Bar This lunacy was eventually resolved by an Act of Parliament in 1815 and a stop-lock constructed. The canal has four tunnels. The longest at Kings Norton is just under two miles long. Steam tugs were used from the 1870s to haul strings of narrowboats through the four tunnels. Before that, pairs of donkeys were often preferred to horses as they could be put into the boats when the tunnels were being negotiated. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal has locks, 58 of them, climbing 428 feet (130 metres) from the level of the River Severn in Worcester up to Birmingham. In the twenty-first century the ring now formed by the two canals and the river makes a popular two weeks holiday route, albeit partly a strenuous one, lockwise, but there are plenty of pubs, though some are now merely restaurants with a bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_and_Birmingham_Canal
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The cutting approaching this tunnel is deeply shrouded under mature deciduous trees. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Later, salt carrying was added as a regular cargo. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the four tunnels near Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The cutting approaching this tunnel is deeply shrouded under mature deciduous trees. A narrowboat is in the tunnel. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Later, salt carrying was added as a regular cargo. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the four tunnels near Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.5km<br/>Shortwood Tunnel, which has a very leaky lining, is 613 yards (560 metres) in length. It is wide enough for boats to pass each other. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal has five tunnels. The longest at Kings Norton is just under two miles long. Steam tugs were used from the 1870s to haul strings of narrowboats through Wasts Hill, Shortwood and Tardebigge tunnels. Before that, pairs of donkeys were often preferred to horses as they could be put into the boats when the tunnels were being negotiated. The canal has locks, 58 of them, climbing 428 feet (130 metres) from the level of the River Severn in Worcester up to Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.5km<br/>Shortwood Tunnel, which has a very leaky lining, is 613 yards (560 metres) in length. It is wide enough for boats to pass each other. The canal has five tunnels. The longest at Kings Norton is just under two miles long. Steam tugs were used from the 1870s to haul strings of narrowboats through Wasts Hill, Shortwood and Tardebigge tunnels. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal has locks, 58 of them, climbing 428 feet (130 metres) from the level of the River Severn in Worcester up to Birmingham. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the tunnels.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.5km<br/>Shortwood Tunnel, which has a very leaky lining, is 613 yards (560 metres) in length. It is wide enough for boats to pass each other. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal has five tunnels. The longest at Kings Norton is just under two miles long. Steam tugs were used from the 1870s to haul strings of narrowboats through Wasts Hill, Shortwood and Tardebigge tunnels. Before that, pairs of donkeys were often preferred to horses as they could be put into the boats when the tunnels were being negotiated. The canal has locks, 58 of them, climbing 428 feet (130 metres) from the level of the River Severn in Worcester up to Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd

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