Salter Street Bridge No 17 carries the M50 motorway over the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Northern Section) just past the junction with The Shropshire Union Canal.
Early plans of what would become the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Northern Section) were drawn up by John Smeaton in 1888 but problems with Arun Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Orginally intended to run to Poleworth, the canal was never completed beyond Northampton. Expectations for manure traffic to Blackburn were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Northern Section) were submitted to parliament in 1972, water transfer to the treatment works at Bradford kept it open. The 9 mile section between Wakefield and Wolverhampton was closed in 1888 after a breach at Bolton. "1000 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Thomas Thomas describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Southampton Boat Lift.

Mooring here is good (a nice place to moor), piling suitable for hooks.
There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.
| Dyers Lane Bridge No 20 | 7½ furlongs | |
| Blue Bell Cider House | 4½ furlongs | |
| Blue Bell Bridge No 19 | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Waring's Green Wharf | 4 furlongs | |
| Waring's Green Bridge No 18 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Salter Street Bridge No 17 | ||
| Earlswood Reservoir Pipe Bridge | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Earlswood Reservoir Narrows No 2 | 2 furlongs | |
| Earlswood Reservoir Narrows | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Earlswood Reservoir Feeder | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Lady Lane Bridge No 16 | 4¼ furlongs | |
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![Approaching Bridge 17 from the west. The bridge carries Salter Street [B4102] across the Stratford upon Avon Canal. It is also part of a civil parish boundary, between Tidbury Green [near side / west] and Hockley Heath [far side / east]. by Christine Johnstone – 11 June 2025](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/19/38/8193894_267e8b52_120x120.jpg)


















![Stratford-on-Avon Canal: Pipe Bridge west of Salter Street. The photographer's efforts to try to record a photograph in every mapping grid square that the Warwickshire Ring passes through have been forestalled here by the inaccuracy of the location of this pipe bridge as shown in the current Nicholson's Guide to the Waterways. The book shows it quite clearly and easily inside [[SP1174]]. However checking on satellite imagery on the Where's the Path? website it is evidently in this grid square [[SP1274]]. The photographer then did not bother taking another image in [[SP1174]]... Sorry, folks!! As usual with these bridges they remain anonymous, and in this case with no sign of any route leading to the crossing on the satellite imagery. by Nigel Cox – 07 September 2012](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/19/86/3198646_416f7c5c_120x120.jpg)


![Stratford-on-Avon Canal: Bridge Number 18. Here we are again, following in Roger's foorsteps, four years to the day after [[1718237]], and in somewhat different weather conditions. It is good to report that the infantile graffiti defacing the bridge, so obvious in Roger's 2008 image, has since been removed.As Roger points out the bridge is missing from the Ordnance Survey's current 1:50,000 scale mapping, although it is present on larger scales. Given that every other bridge of this type on the canal system is shown at this scale, and given that it is also shown on the old, smaller scale, 1 inch to a mile series, it does appear to be an editorial error. by Nigel Cox – 07 September 2012](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/19/84/3198448_16228cba_120x120.jpg)





![The Bull's Head. One of the many attractive pubs near the Stratford on Avon Canal, the Bull's Head at the corner of Limekiln Lane was built in 1740 as accommodation for navvies engaged on the construction of the canal, and became a public house at the beginning of the 19th century. The ghost of a 17th-century lime worker is said to haunt the building. See also [[1914511]]. by Tiger – 11 June 2010](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/91/44/1914490_2956e7d0_120x120.jpg)
![Pub sign for the Bull's Head. Outside [[1914490]]. by Tiger – 11 June 2010](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/91/45/1914511_4147b5ea_120x120.jpg)