
This is a pinch point. The normal maximum dimensions for a boat on this waterway are 72 feet long and 7 feet wide (the maxium height and draught are unknown), but to pass through here the maximum dimensions are 6 feet and 9 inches high.
Mooring here is excellent (this is a really good mooring), mooring rings or bollards are available. Mooring is limited to 7 days. Mooring in basin - 7 days free per year for visiting boats, subject to space. .
Facilities: diesel for sale, chemical toilet disposal, gas for sale, coal for sale, boatyard pump-out, rubbish disposal, toilets, water point, laundrette and electric hook up.
You can wind here.
Gosty Hill Bridge | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
Gosty Hill Tunnel (northern entrance) | 1 mile | |
Gosty Hill Tunnel (southern entrance) | 5¼ furlongs | |
Site of former Stewarts & Lloyds Steel Works | 4¾ furlongs | |
Coombes Footbridge | 1¾ furlongs | |
Hawne Basin | ||
Coombeswood | ¾ furlongs |
Hawne Basin was most recently an interchange basin for the Great Western Railway and used for the transhipment of tubes from the Coombeswood works of Stewarts & Lloyds/BSC (British Steel Corporation) until the railway closed in 1967.Mooring info:Coombswood Canal Trust - Visitor moorings free for first week. £4 a night afterwards. Book in advance.
- Coombeswood Canal Trust | Home page — associated with this page
- A comprehensive set of information about the trust, its ownership of the basin and the facitilies it provides
- Birmingham Canal Walks — associated with Birmingham Canal Navigations
- Sixteen walks along the Birmingham Canal Navigations with a detailed description, history and photographs.
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Nearest water point
In the direction of Coombeswood
In the direction of Parkhead Junction
Nearest rubbish disposal
In the direction of Coombeswood
In the direction of Parkhead Junction
Nearest chemical toilet disposal
In the direction of Coombeswood
In the direction of Parkhead Junction
Nearest place to turn
In the direction of Coombeswood
In the direction of Parkhead Junction
Nearest self-operated pump-out
In the direction of Coombeswood
In the direction of Parkhead Junction
Nearest boatyard pump-out
In the direction of Coombeswood
In the direction of Parkhead Junction
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