Birchills Junction
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Junction (canal)
A canal junction is a place at which two or more canal routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the beds of the two canals as opposed to them crossing on different levels eg via an aqueduct....
at the northern limit of what is now called the Walsall Canal
Walsall Canal
The Walsall Canal is a narrow canal, seven miles long, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and passing around the western side of Walsall, West Midlands, England.-Route:...
where it meets the Wyrley and Essington Canal
Wyrley and Essington Canal
The Wyrley and Essington Canal, known locally as "the Curly Wyrley", is a canal in the English Midlands. As built it ran from Wolverhampton to Huddlesford Junction near Lichfield, with a number of branches: some parts are currently derelict...
main line, near Walsall
Walsall
Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...
, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Historically the Birchills Branch of the Wyrley and Essington ran from Sneyd Junction to Bloxall Wharf, north-west of Walsall. When the Wryley and Essington Extension Canal was authorised, it ran from Birchills Junction on the Birchills Branch to Huddlesford: most of the Birchills Branch was effectively subsumed into the new mainline of the Wyrley and Essington. Thus the junction was with what became the mainline of the Wyrley and Essington, and the stub branch to Bloxall Wharf.
See also
- List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom
- List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom
- List of canal basins in the United Kingdom
- List of canal locks in the United Kingdom
- List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom