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Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Northern Section)

 
 
Information about the waterway

The Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Northern Section) is a narrow canal and is part of the Stratford-on-Avon Canal. It runs for 12 miles and 4¾ furlongs through 19 locks from Kingswood Junction (south) (where it joins the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Lapworth Link) and the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Southern Section)) to King's Norton Junction (where it joins the Worcester and Birmingham Canal (Birmingham to King's Norton) and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal (Diglis Basin to King's Norton Junction)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 7 feet wide. The maximum headroom is 6 feet and 6 inches. The maximum draught is not known.

It has a junction with the Stratford-on-Avon Canal (Kingswood Branch) at Kingswood Junction (north).

Notable features of the waterway include Brandwood Tunnel, Lapworth Locks (upper) and Lapworth Locks (middle)

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Kingswood Junction (south)
Lapworth Lock No 21
Between the two branches to Kingswood Junction
½ furlongs 0 locks
Kingswood Junction (north) ¾ furlongs 1 lock
Lapworth Lock No 19 1 furlong 1 lock
Old Warwick Road Bridge No 35 1½ furlongs 2 locks
Lapworth Lock No 18 1½ furlongs 2 locks
Lapworth Lock No 17 2 furlongs 3 locks
Lapworth Lock No 16 2½ furlongs 4 locks
Lapworth Lock No 15 2¾ furlongs 5 locks
Bird in Hand Bridge No 34 3¼ furlongs 6 locks
Lapworth Village moorings 3½ furlongs 6 locks
Lapworth Pipe Bridge 4¼ furlongs 6 locks
Lapworth Turnover Bridge No 33 4¼ furlongs 6 locks
Lapworth Lock No 14
Bottom lock of Lapworth Flight
4½ furlongs 6 locks
Briar Cottage Moorings Canal Shop & CafĂ© 4½ furlongs 7 locks
Lapworth Lock No 13 4¾ furlongs 7 locks
Lapworth Wharf 5 furlongs 8 locks
Lapworth Lock No 12 5 furlongs 8 locks
Lapworth Lock No 11 5½ furlongs 9 locks
Lapworth Lock No 10 5¾ furlongs 10 locks
Lapworth Lock No 9 6¼ furlongs 11 locks
Lapworth Lock No 8 6½ furlongs 12 locks
Lapworth Turnover Bridge No 32 6¾ furlongs 13 locks
Lapworth Lock No 7 6¾ furlongs 13 locks
Lapworth Lock No 6
Top lock of the "thick" of the Lapworth Flight
7¼ furlongs 14 locks
Pinners Bridge No 31 1 mile and ¾ furlongs 15 locks
Lapworth Lock No 5 1 mile and 2½ furlongs 15 locks
Lapworth Cricket Club Bridge No 30 1 mile and 3 furlongs 16 locks
Lapworth Lock No 4 1 mile and 3¼ furlongs 16 locks
Lapworth Lock No 3 1 mile and 4¾ furlongs 17 locks
Church Lane Bridge No 29 1 mile and 5½ furlongs 18 locks
Lapworth Top Lock No 2 1 mile and 5¾ furlongs 18 locks
Drawbridge Farm Drawbridge No 28
Also known as Drawbridge Farm Lift Bridge No 28
1 mile and 7½ furlongs 19 locks
Wharf Lane Bridge Winding Hole 2 miles and 1½ furlongs 19 locks
Wharf Lane Bridge No 27 2 miles and 1½ furlongs 19 locks
Swallow Wharf
Home of Swallow Cruisers
2 miles and 1¾ furlongs 19 locks
Sand Farm Drawbridge No 26
Also known as Hockley Heath Drawbridge
2 miles and 3¾ furlongs 19 locks
Hockley Heath Bridge No 25 2 miles and 6¼ furlongs 19 locks
The Wharf Tavern (Hockley Heath) 2 miles and 6¼ furlongs 19 locks
Hockley Heath Wharf 2 miles and 6¼ furlongs 19 locks
Big Spring Coppice Bridge No 24 3 miles and 2¾ furlongs 19 locks
Ashford Lane Bridge No 23 3 miles and 4½ furlongs 19 locks
Rotherham's Oak Winding Hole 3 miles and 7½ furlongs 19 locks
Rotherham's Oak Bridge No 22 3 miles and 7¾ furlongs 19 locks
Tinkers Lane Bridge No 21 4 miles and 1¾ furlongs 19 locks
M42 Motorway Bridge 4 miles and 2¾ furlongs 19 locks
Dyers Lane Bridge No 20 4 miles and 3¾ furlongs 19 locks
Blue Bell Cider House 4 miles and 6¾ furlongs 19 locks
Blue Bell Bridge No 19 4 miles and 7 furlongs 19 locks
Waring's Green Wharf 4 miles and 7¼ furlongs 19 locks
Waring's Green Bridge No 18 5 miles and 1¾ furlongs 19 locks
Salter Street Bridge No 17 5 miles and 3¼ furlongs 19 locks
Earlswood Reservoir Pipe Bridge 5 miles and 4½ furlongs 19 locks
Earlswood Reservoir Narrows No 2 5 miles and 5¼ furlongs 19 locks
Earlswood Reservoir Narrows 5 miles and 7 furlongs 19 locks
Earlswood Reservoir Feeder
Earlswood Motor Yacht Club moorings (arm is 400yds long)
5 miles and 7¼ furlongs 19 locks
Lady Lane Bridge No 16 5 miles and 7½ furlongs 19 locks
Braggs Farm Bridge No 15 6 miles and 2 furlongs 19 locks
Dickens Heath Village Arm
Not navigable
6 miles and 4¾ furlongs 19 locks
Dickens Heath Village Footbridge No 14 6 miles and 4¾ furlongs 19 locks
Site of Dickens' Heath Farm Drawbridge 6 miles and 6¾ furlongs 19 locks
Jerrings Hall Farm Footbridge No 13 7 miles 19 locks
Three Maypoles Bridge No 12 7 miles and 1¼ furlongs 19 locks
Tythe Barn Lane Bridge No 11 7 miles and 2½ furlongs 19 locks
Site of Three May Poles Wharf 7 miles and 2½ furlongs 19 locks
Whitlocks End Farm Bridge No 10 7 miles and 4½ furlongs 19 locks
Tyburn Farm Winding Hole 7 miles and 6½ furlongs 19 locks
Dicken's Heath Narrows 7 miles and 7¼ furlongs 19 locks
Whitlocks End Railway Bridge 7 miles and 7¾ furlongs 19 locks
Haslucks Green Road Bridge No 9 8 miles and ½ furlongs 19 locks
Drawbridge Inn 8 miles and 2 furlongs 19 locks
Shirley Drawbridge No 8 8 miles and 2 furlongs 19 locks
Major's Green Aqueduct 8 miles and 3¼ furlongs 19 locks
Peterbrook Rise Narrows 8 miles and 5 furlongs 19 locks
Solihull Lodge High Street Bridge No 7 8 miles and 7 furlongs 19 locks
School Road Bridge No 6 9 miles and 5 furlongs 19 locks
School Road Pipes Bridge 9 miles and 5 furlongs 19 locks
Yardley Wood Road Bridge No 5 9 miles and 7¾ furlongs 19 locks
Yardley Wood Visitor Moorings 10 miles 19 locks
Yardley Wood Winding Hole
Not an officially listed winding hole
10 miles 19 locks
Yardley Wood Water Point 10 miles and ¼ furlongs 19 locks
Yardley Wood Pipe Bridge 10 miles and 1¼ furlongs 19 locks
Warstock Lane Bridge No 4 10 miles and 1¼ furlongs 19 locks
Lyons Boatyard 10 miles and 4¼ furlongs 19 locks
Limekiln Arm
Side arm by the pub
10 miles and 5¼ furlongs 19 locks
The Horseshoe PH 10 miles and 5½ furlongs 19 locks
Limekiln Lane Bridge No 3 10 miles and 5½ furlongs 19 locks
Millpool Hill Pipe Bridge 10 miles and 5¾ furlongs 19 locks
Brandwood Tunnel (eastern entrance) 11 miles and 3¾ furlongs 19 locks
Brandwood Tunnel (western entrance) 11 miles and 5½ furlongs 19 locks
Brandwood Pipe Bridge 11 miles and 6 furlongs 19 locks
Site of King's Norton Swing Bridge No 2
Dismantled.
12 miles and 1¼ furlongs 19 locks
King's Norton Stop Lock No 1
A unique, guillotine gated, stop lock normally left open
12 miles and 3½ furlongs 19 locks
Broad Meadow Lane Bridge No 1 12 miles and 3½ furlongs 19 locks
King's Norton Junction
Junction of Stratford and Worcester and Birmingham Canals
12 miles and 4¾ furlongs 19 locks
 
 
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External websites
 Lady Lane Wharf | Waterpride Estates — associated with Earlswood Reservoir Feeder
The Earkswood Resevoir feeder moorings and associated facilities and services at Lady Lane Wharf
 The Drawbridge Inn Pub Restaurant in Shirley Solihull — associated with Drawbridge Inn
Drawbridge Inn pub in Shirley. Live sport, food and drinks.
 Warings Green Wharf - Moorings in Solihull at Warings Green Wharf — associated with Waring's Green Wharf
Welcome to Warings Green Wharf, on the North Stratford near Solihull
 
Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Stratford-on-Avon Canal

The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a canal in the south Midlands of England. The canal, which was built between 1793 and 1816, runs for 25.5 miles (41.0 km) in total, and consists of two sections. The dividing line is at Kingswood Junction, which gives access to the Grand Union Canal. Following acquisition by a railway company in 1856, it gradually declined, the southern section being un-navigable by 1945, and the northern section little better.

The northern section was the setting for a high-profile campaign by the fledgling Inland Waterways Association in 1947, involving the right of navigation under Tunnel Lane bridge, which required the Great Western Railway to jack it up in order to allow boats to pass. These actions saved the section from closure. The southern section was restored by the National Trust between 1961 and 1964, after an attempt to close it was thwarted. The revived canal was re-opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and responsibility for it was transferred to British Waterways in 1988.

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