Boshboil Arm Bridge with Boshboil Arm beyond

The present day Bumble Hole Branch Canal and Boshboil Branch surround Bumble Hole, a water-filled clay pit, in Bumble Hole and Warren's Hall Nature Reserve, Rowley Regis,

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

, England. They formed a looped part of the original Dudley No. 2 Canal until the opening of the

Netherton Tunnel Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal, in the West Midlands county, England, is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, (BCN). It was constructed at a 453–foot elevation, the Wednesbury or Birmingham level; it has no locks. The total length of the b ...

in 1858 when the loop was bypassed by a new cut, in line with the new tunnel. Part of the bypassed canal loop, which surrounds Bumble Hole, is now in-filled giving access to the pool of Bumble Hole. An area next to the Bumble Hole and Dudley canals is the Bumble Hole Local Nature Reserve.

Cobb's Engine House

Between Windmill End Junction and the tunnel portal stands

Cobb's Engine House Cobb's Engine House (properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station) in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England, is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade II listed building built around 1831. It housed a stationary steam pump used to pump water ...

, built in 1831 to pump water from coal mines into the canal.

Bumble Hole railway

The Bumble Hole railway was used to cross the canal near Windmill End Junction, but was dismantled in 1969.

Canal map

Features

References

External links

Cruising the BCN - photographsEnglish Nature - Bumble Hole and Warrens Hall LNRs
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