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©Martin Wilson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Wharf Lane to the left leads to the current site of Anglo Welsh canal cruisers at what was presumably the wharf after which the lane was named. There is a staggered crossroads here with the farm lane in addition.
©Martin Wilson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A small exclusive housing development built on the site of an old abattoir.
©Mike Dodman
Dist:0.5km<br/>Following a spring when hawthorn blossom was profuse, the resultant plentiful haws are also colouring the hedges with a distinctive red hue. 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:0.6km<br/>Following a spring when hawthorn blossom was profuse, the resultant plentiful haws are also colouring the hedges with a distinctive red hue. 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
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©Row17
Dist:0.6km<br/>On the left is one of the bases of the Anglo-Welsh Narrowboats hire company. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Between the River Severn at Worcester and the Birmingham level at the top of the Tardebigge flight (just under sixteen miles) there are 58 locks, raising the water level by 428 feet (about 157 metres) and four tunnels. This was not the original plan, which involved 76 locks. At one time the engineer John Woodhouse proposed that there be just twelve locks and a series of boat-lifts, but although just one lift was built (at the present Tardebigge Top Lock) this was quite quickly replaced, and the lift idea was replaced with just 58 locks. 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 or pulled by company tugs before most boats were motorised.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is Bridge No 57 on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. Beyond the bridge is an Anglo-Welsh narrowboat hire centre. 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 such as the one south of here at Tardebigge.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.7km<br/>The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Between the River Severn at Worcester and the Birmingham level at the top of the Tardebigge flight (just under sixteen miles) there are 58 locks, raising the water level by 428 feet (about 157 metres) and four tunnels. This was not the original plan, which involved 76 locks. At one time the engineer John Woodhouse proposed that there be just twelve locks and a series of boat-lifts, but although just one lift was built (at the present Tardebigge Top Lock) this was quite quickly replaced, and the lift idea was replaced with just 58 locks. 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 or pulled by company tugs before most boats were motorised.
©Roger Kidd
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©Martin Wilson
Dist:0.7km<br/>This view is approaching the north-east portal of the tunnel. The tunnel is 530 yards (485 metres) long, and is wide enough for narrowboats to pass each other, with care! The Worcester and Birmingham Canal, started in Birmingham in 1792, reached Tardebigge with the opening of this tunnel by 1807. There are three other tunnels on the way to Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.8km<br/>This view is approaching the north-east portal of the tunnel. The tunnel is 530 yards (485 metres) long, and is wide enough for narrowboats to pass each other, with care! The Worcester and Birmingham Canal, started in Birmingham in 1792, reached Tardebigge with the opening of this tunnel by 1807. There are three other tunnels on the way to Birmingham.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.8km<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:0.8km<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

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