Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Shrewsbury Canal)
The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
It has a junction with the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Newport Branch - Main Line) at Wappenshall Junction.
Notable features of the waterway include Berwick Tunnel
This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "closed"
The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River TrustRelevant publications — Waterway Maps:
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
| Shrewsbury Canal Terminal Warehouse | |||
| Shrewsbury Basin Now the rear of Royal Mail sorting office |
½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Newpark Road Bridge No 48 | 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Factory Bridge No 47 Ditherington Maltings |
4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Factory Basin Area currently under redevelopment |
5 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Comet Bridge No 46 | 7¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Telford Way Bridge No 45A Built since the canal closed |
1 mile and 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| New Inn Bridge No 45 Near the Coracle public house |
1 mile and 5 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Pimley Bridge No 44 | 2 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Shrewsbury By-pass Bridge No 43A Built since the canal closed |
2 miles and 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sundorne Wharf | 2 miles and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Kennels Bridge No 43 | 3 miles | 0 locks | |
| Brickkiln Bridge No 42 | 3 miles and 1 furlong | 0 locks | |
| Downton Bridge No 41 | 3 miles and 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 40 (S&NC) | 3 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| LNW & GW Railway Bridge No 2 | 4 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| New A5 Crossing No 2 | 4 miles and 2½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Berwick Tunnel (western entrance) Tunnel is 970 yards (887 m) long |
4 miles and 3½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Berwick Tunnel (eastern entrance) Tunnel is 970 yards (887 m) long |
5 miles and ½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 39 (S&NC) | 5 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 38 (S&NC) | 5 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Berwick Wharf | 5 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 37 (S&NC) | 5 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 36 (S&NC) | 5 miles and 7½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 35 (S&NC) | 6 miles and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| New A5 Crossing No 1 | 6 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| LNW & GW Railway Bridge No 1 | 6 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Footbridge No 34 (S&NC) | 7 miles | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 33 (S&NC) | 7 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Swing Bridge No 32 (S&NC) | 7 miles and 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Winding hole (S&NC) | 7 miles and 5 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 28 (S&NC) | 8 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 27 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 8 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bridge No 26 (S&NC) | 9 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Roddington Wharf | 9 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Roddington Bridge | 9 miles and 2½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Roddington Aqueduct | 9 miles and 3 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 25 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 9 miles and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 24 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 10 miles and ¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 23 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 10 miles and 3 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 22 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 10 miles and 6 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Longwaste Bridge No 21 | 11 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Longwaste Wharf | 11 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Longdon-upon-Tern Aqueduct | 11 miles and 7 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 20 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 12 miles | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 19 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 12 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 18 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 12 miles and 5 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Railway Bridge No 17 | 12 miles and 6 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Long Lane Bridge No 16 | 13 miles and 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Eyton Lower Lock | 13 miles and 5 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 15 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 14 miles and 2½ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Eyton Lock | 14 miles and 2½ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Lift Bridge No 14 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 14 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Wappenshall Junction Junction with the Shrewsbury Canal Main Line |
15 miles | 2 locks | |
| Wappenshall Bridge No 13 | 15 miles and ¾ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Wappenshall Lock No 9 | 15 miles and 1 furlong | 2 locks | |
| Britton Lock | 15 miles and 3 furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Kinley Bridge | 15 miles and 4 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Wheat Leasows Bridge | 15 miles and 5 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Wheat Leasows Lock | 15 miles and 5 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shucks Lock | 15 miles and 5½ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Peaty Lock | 15 miles and 6 furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Hadley Park Bridge | 15 miles and 7½ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Hadley Park Lock | 15 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Turnip Lock | 16 miles and ¾ furlongs | 8 locks | |
| Baker's Lock | 16 miles and 4 furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Trench Lock Interchange | 16 miles and 7½ furlongs | 10 locks |
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Wikipedia has a page about Shropshire Union Canal
The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the Shropshire Union (SU) system and lie partially in Wales.
The canal lies in the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire in the north-west English Midlands. It links the canal system of the West Midlands, at Wolverhampton, with the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, 66 miles (106 km) distant.
The "SU main line" runs southeast from Ellesmere Port on the River Mersey to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Autherley Junction in Wolverhampton. Other links are to the Llangollen Canal (at Hurleston Junction), the Middlewich Branch (at Barbridge Junction), which itself connects via the Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee (in Chester). With two connections to the Trent and Mersey (via the Middlewich Branch and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal) the SU is part of an important circular and rural holiday route called the Four Counties Ring.
The SU main line was the last trunk narrow canal route to be built in England. It was not completed until 1835 and was the last major civil engineering accomplishment of Thomas Telford.
The name "Shropshire Union" comes from the amalgamation of the various component companies (Ellesmere Canal, Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, Montgomeryshire Canal) that came together to form the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. The main line between Nantwich and Autherley Junction was almost built as a railway although eventually it was decided to construct it as a waterway.