Curdworth Lock 5 No 32 is one of some locks on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Birmingham and Fazeley Canal - Main Line); it has a rise of only a few inches.
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

This is a lock with a rise of 6 feet and 1 inch.
| Curdworth Lock 8 No 35 | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Marston Field Bridge | 4 furlongs | |
| Curdworth Lock 7 No 34 | 4 furlongs | |
| White Bridge | 1½ furlongs | |
| Curdworth Lock 6 No 33 | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Curdworth Lock 5 No 32 | ||
| Curdworth Lock 4 No 31 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Marston Lane Bridge | ¾ furlongs | |
| Curdworth Lock 3 No 30 | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Curdworth Lock 2 No 29 | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Willday's Farm Bridge | 2¼ furlongs | |
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![Running bywash, Birmingham & Fazeley canal. Water is overflowing from the pound above lock 5 to the pound below it [on the Curdworth flight]. by Christine Johnstone – 08 May 2022](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/20/98/7209879_3af9bf6c_120x120.jpg)


















![Detail of by wash, lock 4 Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. The by wash is located just above lock 4 and below the building at Marston Lane Bridge shown in [[3812896]]. When there is excess water in the canal it discharges over the iron weir and by means of a culvert discharges below the lock; this prevents excess water flowing over the lock gates by Christopher Hall – 17 April 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/81/29/3812904_aebf00dd_120x120.jpg)


![Marston Lane bridge and Curdworth Shop lock [no 4]. Part-way down the Curdworth flight on the Birmingham & Fazeley canal. The building is shown on the large-scale OS map surveyed in 1888. by Christine Johnstone – 04 June 2025](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/08/91/8089185_b120877c_120x120.jpg)

