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Stourbridge Canal

Legend

Middle Pool

Fens Pool

Grove Pools

Pensnett Road

Dudley Canal

Black Delph Bridge

railway

limit of navigation

Stourbridge Extension Canal

Brockmoor Junction

A461 Brettell Lane Bridge

Farmers Bridge

B4180 Leys Bridge

Leys Junction

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Stourbridge Locks (3)

B4180 Brierley Hill Road bridge

4-6

Stourbridge Locks (3)

Swan Lane bridge

7-10

Stourbridge Locks (4)

Dadford's Shed Arm

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Stourbridge Locks (2)

A491 High Street

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Stourbridge Locks (4)

Wordsley Junction

River Stour aqueduct

Stourbridge Town Arm

A461 Brook bridge

Ironworks wharf

Stourbridge Basin

River Stour

Bellsmill

Site of 2008 breach

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Stourton Locks

A449 Wolverhampton Road

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Stourton Locks

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Stourton Bottom Lock

Stourton Junction

Staffordshire and

Worcestershire Canal

The Stourbridge Canal is a canal in the West Midlands of England. It links the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (at Stourton Junction, affording access to traffic from the River Severn) with the Dudley Canal, and hence, via the Birmingham Canal Navigations, to Birmingham and the Black Country.

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References

Hadfield, Charles (1969). Canals of the West Midlands. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. pp. 73–5, 100–6, 264–6. ISBN 0-7153-4660-1.
Perrott, David (2006). Nicholson Waterways Guide 2 - Severn, Avon & Birmingham. Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-721110-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Birmingham Canal Navigations. GEOprojects. ISBN 0-86351-172-4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |origdate= ignored (|orig-date= suggested) (help) - Highly detailed printed 1:30,000 sheet map

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 The '''Stourbridge Canal''' is a [[canal]] in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] of [[England]]. It links the [[Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal]] (at [[Stourton, Staffordshire|Stourton]] Junction, affording access to traffic from the [[River Severn]]) with the [[Dudley Canal]], and hence, via the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]], to [[Birmingham]] and the [[Black Country]].
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-==Background==
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-The Stourbridge and Dudley canals were originally proposed as a single canal in 1775, but were separately authorised in 1776. The engineer was [[Thomas Dadford]]. The Canal was largely complete by 1779. The canal remained profitable until the eve of [[World War II]].
-A flight of sixteen [[canal lock|locks]] takes the canal up the hill towards Pensnett Chase, where there were collieries. From Leys Junction,  the Fens Branch is a short, navigable feeder from [[Fens Pools]] and the main canal continues to [[Delph Locks]], a flight of originally nine (now only eight) locks at the start of the Dudley Canal.
-The canal forms part of the [[Stourport Ring]], which is one of the popular cruising rings for leisure boating.
-===Stourbridge Town Arm===
-At Wordsley Junction, the Stourbridge Town Arm heads south-east into the town of [[Stourbridge]]. The [[Stourbridge Town Branch Line]] railway was built in the 1850s from [[Stourbridge Junction railway station]], via [[Stourbridge Town railway station]] to serve [[Stourbridge Basin]]. The basin was for interchange between the railway and the canal and this aided the canal's continued use.
-===Stourbridge Extension Canal===
-{{main|Stourbridge Extension Canal}}
-A separate company built the [[Stourbridge Extension Canal]] from the Fens Branch to [[Shut End]] (in [[Kingswinford]]) thus opening up another part of the coalfield to development, but this passed into the hands of a railway company in 1860 and became completely disused after the Second World War, apart from a few yards at the Fens Branch end, which remain watered and serve as a mooring place.
-===2008 Breach===
-During flooding of the River Stour on 7 September 2008 a major breach occurred.  This swept away a length of towpath and bank between Lenton Chain and Stourton Locks. This completely drained the pounds, including the Stourbridge Town Arm.  British Waterways restored navigation from the Dudley Canal, via Delph Locks and Wordsley Junction into the Town Arm fairly quickly.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stourbridge Canal breach update|url=http://www.waterscape.com/features-and-articles/news/2254/stourbridge-canal-breach-update|date=2008-09-22|quote=
-Early indications suggest that the surges in water levels caused by the River Stour flooding in the area of the Stourbridge Town Arm terminus, and due to the extreme weather conditions experienced up to and over the weekend of 6-7 September 2008, resulted in the breach taking place. [..] The lock flight above Wordsley Junction is fully reinstated giving navigational options to all in the Stourbridge Town Arm, however, the navigation between Wordsley Junction and Stourton locks remains closed.|accessdate=2008-10-15|publisher=[[British Waterways]] West Midlands}}</ref>
-The canal was re-opened on 18 December 2008 after British Waterways completed £650,000 repairs ahead of schedule.
 == References ==

v t e Navigable canals of the United Kingdom
England	Aire and Calder¹ Ashby-de-la-Zouch² Ashton Basingstoke Canal Beverley Beck Birmingham Canal Navigations³ Bridgewater Bridgwater and Taunton Buckingham Arm² Bude² Calder and Hebble¹ Cambridgeshire Lodes³ Chelmer and Blackwater¹ Chesterfield² Chichester² Coventry Driffield Droitwich Erewash Foss Dyke Gloucester and Sharpness Grand Union³ Grand Western² Grantham² Herefordshire and Gloucestershire² Hollinwood Branch² Huddersfield Broad Huddersfield Narrow Ipswich and Stowmarket¹² Kennet and Avon¹ Lancaster² Leeds and Liverpool³ Lee Navigation¹ Limehouse Llangollen Lydney Macclesfield Maidenhead Waterways Manchester Bolton & Bury² Manchester Ship Canal Market Weighton² Middle Level Navigations³ Montgomery² North Walsham and Dilham¹² Nottingham² Oxford¹ Peak Forest Pocklington² Regent's Canal Ribble Link¹ Ripon Rochdale Royal Military Canal Sankey² Selby Sheffield and South Yorkshire¹³ Shropshire Union³ Sleaford¹² South Forty-Foot Drain Staffordshire and Worcestershire Stort¹ Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Stroudwater² Thames and Medway² Thames and Severn² Trent and Mersey³ Weaver¹ Wardle Wey and Arun² Wey and Godalming¹ Wilts & Berks² Witham Navigable Drains³ Worcester and Birmingham Wyrley and Essington
Northern Ireland	Coalisland Canal Lagan Canal Newry Canal Shannon–Erne Waterway Strabane Canal Ulster Canal
Scotland	Caledonian Canal¹ Crinan Canal Forth and Clyde Union Canal
Wales	Llangollen Canal Monmouthshire and Brecon² Montgomery Canal² Neath and Tennant² Swansea Canal²
Features	Aqueducts (list) Basins Locks Rings Tunnels (list) Winding holes
Related topics	British Waterways Canal & River Trust Scottish Canals History of the British canal system London Canal Museum Manchester Pusher Narrowboats National Waterways Museum Navigable aqueduct Waterways Ireland
Notes: ¹ Contains canalised river. ² Partly or mostly navigable, and/or under restoration. ³ A system of canals. Canals which form part of this system are not listed here individually.