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The Birmingham Main Line Canal running underneath the M5 at Oldbury.

©Bill Payer

Dist:0.1km<br/>The Pub stands on Birmingham Road.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.1km<br/>The View from under the motorway towards Turner's Hill Masts.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.2km<br/>The motorway passes over the Birmingham Road at Oldbury.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.2km<br/>The Birmingham Canal at Oldbury is not shown on the map as it passes under the M5 motorway.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.2km<br/>Photograph taken from Birmingham Road looking west. The motorway was built in the 1960s.

©David Ellis

Dist:0.3km<br/>The Magistrates Courts stand on Birmingham Road,Oldbury.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.3km<br/>The Station stands on Birmingham Road.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.3km<br/>This junction is located directly beneath the M5.

©Row17

Dist:0.3km<br/>The Black Country's old industries still exist and in premises infinitely more appealing than a few decades ago.

©Whatlep

Dist:0.4km<br/>The bottom lock of the six lock Titford flight built in 1837. The boatmen knew the flight as 'The Crow' after the proprietor of the neighbouring chemical works.

©John M

Dist:0.4km<br/>The flight of six locks was built in 1837 to convert the feeder canal from Titford Pool into a navigable waterway.

©John M

Dist:0.4km<br/>The 18th C canal is overtopped by the 20th C motorway. Surely a concrete tribute to the route chosen by James Brindley the canal engineer.

©Stuart Logan

Dist:0.4km<br/>Judge Close opposite.

©Roy Hughes

Dist:0.4km<br/>The parish church of Oldbury, on Birmingham Street/Church Square; built 1840-1 & English Heritage-listed. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=219266&mode=adv

©Mike Faherty

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