King's Orchard Railway Bridge carries a farm track over the Coventry Canal (Detached Portion).
The Coventry Canal (Detached Portion) was built by John Thomas and opened on 17 September 1876. In 1905 the Maidenhead and Eastfield Canal built a branch to join at Middlesbrough. Expectations for stone traffic to Cambridge were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Coventry Canal (Detached Portion) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the carriage of pottery from Reigate to Salford prevented closure. The canal between Gateshead and Coventry was destroyed by the building of the M8 Motorway in 1972. Despite the claim in "Travels of The Barge" by Edward Wright, there is no evidence that Charles Green ever painted a mural of Polstan Locks on the side of William Harding's house live on television

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Brookhay Pumping Station | 1 mile, 2 furlongs | |
| Brookhay Bridge No 88 | 1 mile, ¾ furlongs | |
| Bears Hay Bridge No 87 | 5½ furlongs | |
| Streethay Bridge No 86 | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Streethay Wharf | ½ furlongs | |
| King's Orchard Railway Bridge | ||
| King's Orchard Bridge No 85 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Kings Orchard Marina | 1½ furlongs | |
| Stoney Step Bridge No 84 | 3 furlongs | |
| Fulfen Wood Aqueduct | 4½ furlongs | |
| Huddlesford Visitor Moorings | 5¾ furlongs | |
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![Working boats on the Coventry Canal near Huddlesford. Narrowboat 'Starling' with her butty 'Ethel' are moored on the Coventry Canal by Streethay Marina.[[[7350408]]] by Roger D Kidd – 20 September 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/35/04/7350402_0428a4a4_120x120.jpg)
![Moored working boats near Huddlesford in Staffordshire. Narrowboat Starling with her butty Ethel are moored on the Coventry Canal by Streethay Marina.The seventy feet long working boat Starling was built by Yarwoods in May 1936 for Cowburn and Cowpar Ltd. She was shortened to 40 feet in the 1960s (the middle thirty feet used for a boat called Louise Jane) then relengthened in the 1990s.The unpowered butty Ethel now paired with Starling may not be the original Cowburn and Cowpar's Ethel. This one is an ex LMS boat built in 1930 and has had various names.The Historic Narrowboat Club website has fascinating information, including this:The main cargo carried was carbon disulphide, but other products carried to the Courtaulds sites included acids, solvents, acetone and oils carried in drums or glass carboys. Salts and lime were carried in hessian sacks and caustic soda was carried in drums. Return traffics tended to just be empty containers and carboys. The hazardous nature ofcarbon disulphide led to the introduction of pairs of cylindrical steel tanks being fitted to some of the boats between 1935 and 1936. When the tanks were put in, all boats were equipped with a flood valve in the fore end port side to enable the boat to be sunk quickly in the event of fire. The tanks were kept full of liquid at all times and the carbon disulphide was displaced with water under pressure on delivery. After discharge the boats returned to Trafford Park with the tanks full of water.In 1951 the Courtaulds traffic to both Coventry and Wolverhampton came to an end and after that the only cargoes carried by the fleet was coal to Trafford Park and Broadheath. https://hnbc.org.uk/w-h-cowburn-cowpar-ltd[[[7350402]]][[[7350202]]][[[7056283]]] by Roger D Kidd – 20 September 2016](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/35/04/7350408_1bb171af_120x120.jpg)
![Starling and Ethel near Huddlesford in Staffordshire. Narrowboat Starling with her butty Ethel are moored on the Coventry Canal by Streethay Marina.The seventy feet six inch (20·5 metres) long working boat Starling was built by Yarwoods in May 1936 for Cowburn and Cowpar Ltd. She was shortened to 40 feet in the 1960s (the middle thirty feet used for a boat called Louise Jane) then relengthened in the 1990s.The unpowered butty Ethel now paired with Starling may not be the original Cowburn and Cowpar's Ethel. This one is an ex LMS boat built in 1930 and has had various names.The Historic Narrowboat Club website has fascinating information, including this:The main cargo carried was carbon disulphide, but other products carried to the Courtaulds sites included acids, solvents, acetone and oils carried in drums or glass carboys. Salts and lime were carried in hessian sacks and caustic soda was carried in drums. Return traffics tended to just be empty containers and carboys. The hazardous nature ofcarbon disulphide led to the introduction of pairs of cylindrical steel tanks being fitted to some of the boats between 1935 and 1936. When the tanks were put in, all boats were equipped with a flood valve in the fore end port side to enable the boat to be sunk quickly in the event of fire. The tanks were kept full of liquid at all times and the carbon disulphide was displaced with water under pressure on delivery. After discharge the boats returned to Trafford Park with the tanks full of water.In 1951 the Courtaulds traffic to both Coventry and Wolverhampton came to an end and after that the only cargoes carried by the fleet was coal to Trafford Park and Broadheath. https://hnbc.org.uk/w-h-cowburn-cowpar-ltd[[[7350408]]][[[7350402]]] by Roger D Kidd – 20 September 2016](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/35/10/7351041_64732268_120x120.jpg)

![Moored narrowboats north-west of Huddlesford, Staffordshire. Narrowboat 'Starling' with her butty 'Ethel' are moored on the Coventry Canal by Streethay Marina.[[[7350408]]] by Roger D Kidd – 20 September 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/35/02/7350202_9f8a9fb9_120x120.jpg)



![Diesel locomotive near Streethay in Staffordshire. Telephoto assisted image from about 220 metres.This locomotive 37611 is stationary 1300 metres north-east of Lichfield (Trent Valley) station. It is a Europhoenix ROG class 37 coupled to a NetworkRail track inspection unit.[[[7362077]]] by Roger D Kidd – 27 September 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/36/20/7362082_d248ce0d_120x120.jpg)

![NetworkRail track inspection unit. Telephoto assisted image, looking north-west from the canal about 230 metres away. The unit is stationary 1300 metres north-east of Lichfield (Trent Valley) station.[[[7362082]]][[[7362077]]] by Roger D Kidd – 27 September 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/36/20/7362090_79ca680b_120x120.jpg)










