Bourne Brook Aqueduct carries the M62 motorway over the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) near to Oldham Tunnel.
The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) was built by Exuperius Picking Junior and opened on January 1 1816. The canal joined the sea near Bournemouth. Expectations for stone traffic to Barton were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) were submitted to parliament in 1972, water transfer to the treatment works at Wakefield kept it open. The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line) was closed in 1955 when St Helens Aqueduct collapsed. In his autobiography Arthur Clarke writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s

There is a small aqueduct or underbridge here which takes a river under the canal.
| Fazeley Junction | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Watling Street Bridge | 2 furlongs | |
| Fazeley Visitor Moorings (Tolson's Mill) | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Tolson's Footbridge | ¾ furlongs | |
| Bourne Brook Aqueduct | ||
| Fazeley Mill Marina | 1 furlong | |
| Coleshill Road Bridge Water Point | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Coleshill Road Bridge | 1½ furlongs | |
| Coleshill Road Bridge Winding hole | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Debbies Day Boats & Drayton Boat Services | 2¼ furlongs | |
- 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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![Tolson's Footbridge, Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. Named after the mill adjacent to the canal, described at[[1749109]]. by Peter Barr – 16 May 2010](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/86/27/1862722_4c7116d5_120x120.jpg)























![Tolson's Fazeley Mill from the south. A slightly different aspect to [[5000788]], a late 19th century textile mill, built in the 1880s for William Tolson Ltd. It was Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245134 & https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101245134-fazeley-mill-fazeley in 1997. It's clearly had conversion work done in recent years, adding the modern full-height extension here on the right which has appeared since 2012 [[3139576]], but the fabric and construction of the main building should have been preserved when that was done. by Richard Law – 05 September 2024](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/98/43/7984391_d9a34f69_120x120.jpg)

