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The Digbeth Branch Canal in Birmingham
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, England
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is a short canal which links the mainline of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between the Coventry Canal and Birmingham and thereby connect Birmingham to London via the Oxford ...
at Aston Junction
Aston Junction () is the name of the Junction (canal), canal junction where the Digbeth Branch Canal terminates and meets the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal near to Aston, Birmingham, England.
History
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal was authori ...
and the Grand Union Canal at Digbeth Junction (or historically, at the adjacent Warwick Bar
The Warwick Bar conservation area is a conservation area in Birmingham, England which was home to many canalside factories during the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It is named after the Warwick Bar and later ...
) in Digbeth, a district in Birmingham, England.
Completed in 1799 the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations
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provided a route for traffic between the mainline of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and thus the Birmingham Canal mainline, to and from the Warwick and Birmingham Canal (now part of the Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. It is the principal navigable waterway between London and the Midlands. Starting in London, one arm runs to Leicester and another ends in Birmingham, with the latter st ...
), initially via transshipment over a short physical gap between the canals called the Warwick Bar
The Warwick Bar conservation area is a conservation area in Birmingham, England which was home to many canalside factories during the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It is named after the Warwick Bar and later ...
, with a stop lock later allowing through passage of boats.
The 1¼ mile long canal has six locks descending 40 feet from Aston Junction; the final lock will be located under the final approach to High Speed 2
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's Birmingham Curzon Street railway station
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. After that final lock, the canal passes through a grade II listed
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tunnel carrying the lines eastwards from Birmingham New Street railway station
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, and originally the lines to the original Curzon Street station. Beyond the tunnel is Digbeth Junction. From the junction there is a short branch to the Typhoo
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History
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Basin.
In modern times, Digbeth Junction is sometimes regarded as the junction with the Grand Union Canal, but historically the through route goes a little further, under a former railway bridge, and meets the Grand Union Canal (originally the Warwick and Birmingham Canal) at the Warwick Bar
The Warwick Bar conservation area is a conservation area in Birmingham, England which was home to many canalside factories during the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It is named after the Warwick Bar and later ...
stop lock just to the rear of Birmingham Proof House
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.
From here, the Grand Union Canal continues the route onwards to Bordesley Junction.
All of the canal between Ashted Lock at Jennens Road (formerly the A47) and Great Barr Street (Bordesley) is within the Warwick Bar Conservation Area.
Features
See also
*Canals of Great Britain
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*History of the British canal system
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References
* *External links
Birmingham City Council - Map of Warwick Bar Conservation Area (PDF)
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