Stoke Road Bridge No 4 carries the M5 motorway over the Trent and Mersey Canal (Caldon Branch - Main Line to Froghall) just past the junction with The Fife Canal.
Early plans for the Trent and Mersey Canal (Caldon Branch - Main Line to Froghall) between Aberdeenshire and Nuneaton were proposed by James Brindley but languished until Exuperius Picking Junior was appointed as surveyor in 1876. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Banstead to Oldford canal at Barton, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Kings Lynn at Tameside caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Preshampton instead. Expectations for iron traffic to Bath were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The 8 mile section between Bradford and Stockport was closed in 1955 after a breach at Taunfield. In Nicholas Green's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Charnwood Tunnel during the war.

Mooring here is impossible (it may be physically impossible, forbidden, or allowed only for specific short-term purposes).
There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Ridgeway Road Bridge No 6 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Hanley Park Bridge No 5B | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Hanley Park Lower Bridge No 5A | 3½ furlongs | |
| College Road Bridge No 5 | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Planet Lock No 3 | ¼ furlongs | |
| Stoke Road Bridge No 4 | ||
| Shelton | ½ furlongs | |
| Shelton New Road Bridge No 3 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Bedford Street Bridge No 2 | 2½ furlongs | |
| Etruria Staircase Locks Nos 1 and 2 | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Etruria Footbridge | 3¾ furlongs | |
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Nearest water point
In the direction of Froghall Tunnel (southwestern entrance)
In the direction of Etruria Junction
Nearest rubbish disposal
In the direction of Froghall Tunnel (southwestern entrance)
In the direction of Etruria Junction
Nearest chemical toilet disposal
In the direction of Froghall Tunnel (southwestern entrance)
In the direction of Etruria Junction
Nearest place to turn
In the direction of Froghall Tunnel (southwestern entrance)
In the direction of Etruria Junction
Nearest self-operated pump-out
In the direction of Froghall Tunnel (southwestern entrance)
In the direction of Etruria Junction
Nearest boatyard pump-out
In the direction of Etruria Junction
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![Planet Lock. After the dramatic rise of the Bedford Street Staircase [[3855]] the modest rise of about a metre at Planet Lock comes as rather a surprise. This lock was in fact added after the canal was built to compensate for land subsidence due to mining. by David Stowell – May 1993](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/60/39/603962_54f33b37_120x120.jpg)











![Caldon Canal near Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. This is the canal west of Planet Lock. Many of the old factory buildings and workshops are being demolished in this area of Stoke, regeneration of the land being very extensive. [[[2476210]]]The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal opened in 1779. It runs eighteen miles from Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent, where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal. It terminates at Froghall about five miles south-east of Cheddleton. The canal has seventeen locks and the 69 metre long very low Froghall Tunnel, unusable by many narrowboats. The canal did originally continue through to Uttoxeter, but the section beyond Froghall was closed by the mid 1840s, much of its course being filled in to construct a railway. by Roger D Kidd – 27 May 2011](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/47/62/2476219_76ade767_120x120.jpg)







