Ashted Tunnel (northwestern end) is an notable flight of locks on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Digbeth Branch) near to Scarborough Boat Lift.
Early plans of what would become the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Digbeth Branch) were drawn up by Oliver Smith in 1816 but problems with Portsmouth Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1835. The canal joined the sea near Sheffield. Expectations for coal traffic to Blackburn never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at St Helens kept it open. The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Digbeth Branch) was closed in 1905 when Prescroft Cutting collapsed. In his autobiography Peter Harding writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s

| Site of Dartmouth Street Basin | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Heneage Street Winding Hole | 1 furlong | |
| Heneage Street Bridge | ¾ furlongs | |
| Site of Heneage Street Basin | ¼ furlongs | |
| Ashted Top Lock | a few yards | |
| Ashted Tunnel (northwestern end) | ||
| Ashted Tunnel (southeastern entrance) | ½ furlongs | |
| Ashted Lock No 2 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Ashted Lock No 3 | 1 furlong | |
| Belmont Row Bridge | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Ashted Lock No 4 | 1½ furlongs | |
Ashted Tunnel is 94 metres (103 yards) long. The bottom gate of Ashted Top Lock is approximately 10 metres (33 feet) from the tunnel portal.
Be aware that CRT allow unpowered craft passage through this tunnel! Although must display a forward facing white light!
- Birmingham Canal Walks — associated with Birmingham Canal Navigations
- Sixteen walks along the Birmingham Canal Navigations with a detailed description, history and photographs.
- Digbeth Branch Canal Walk — associated with Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Digbeth Branch)
- A walk along the Digbeth Branch Canal from Aston Junction to Warwick Bar
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![Ashted Canal Tunnel, north portal. Not as aesthetically pleasing as the southern portal.[[[2277504]]] by Ashley Dace – 19 February 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/27/75/2277524_0f49b10e_120x120.jpg)

![Ashted tunnel, Digbeth Branch canal. Looking south from Ashted top lock. The tunnel is 103 yards long [about 93 metres]. Boats can use the tunnel in both directions, but cannot pass inside it. by Christine Johnstone – 09 May 2022](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/23/28/7232855_2f477e75_120x120.jpg)













![Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. A view of the canal with a bridge to the right over a long lost arm to a local factory or industry. There is a slight widening here for boats waiting to travel through Ashted canal tunnel (behind me) [[[2277524]]] by Ashley Dace – 19 February 2011](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/27/80/2278053_f0e5e203_120x120.jpg)












![Ashted Tunnel southern portal. The entrance to the narrow Ashted Tunnel, which runs more or less under Ashted Circus and Jennens Road. The space along the towpath, between the tunnel wall and the fencing on the left is particularly narrow, and with a set of wide bars on a mountain bike, there's little more than a couple of inches clearance either side. Not much wobble-room. [[2653367]] by Richard Law – 24 July 2014](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/14/64/4146476_41a31461_120x120.jpg)