Lichfield Canal

Lichfield Canal
A short section at the eastern end acts as moorings
Specifications
Locks	30
Status	active restoration project
History
Original owner	Wyrley and Essington Canal Company
Date of act	1794
Date completed	1797
Date closed	1955
Geography
Start point	Huddleford Jn, Coventry Canal
End point	Ogley Junction, Brownhills

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Legend
Coventry Canal, Huddlesford Jn Moorings Watery Lane Bridge Cappers Lane Bridge 30 Darnford Lift Bridge 29 Old lock Darnford Lane Bridge 29 New lock A38 road bridge 27-28 A51 Tamworth Road Bridge 26 Tamworth Road locks Borrowcop Locks Canal Park 25 Millennium lock 24 Tamworth Road locks Cricket Lane bridge A5206 London Road Bridge 22-23 Birmingham Railway bridge A5127 Birmingham Road Bridge 20 old lock 20 19-21 19 Old lock 19 18 Ogley 3rd flight Fosseway Lane Bridge 13-17 Ogley 3rd flight Wall Lane Bridge A461 Pipehill Bridge Coppice Lane bridge 12 Ogley 2nd flight A461 Moat Bank Bridge 10-11 Ogley 2nd flight 9 Ogley 2nd flight old lock 9 A5 Watling Street Bridge 9a New lock 9a A461 Boat Bridge 9b New lock 9b 8 New lock 8 M6 Toll aqueduct 8 Ogley 1st flight old lock 8 1-7 Ogley 1st flight Anglesey Bridge marina Wyrley and Essington, Ogley Jn

The Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction at Brownhills on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of Lichfield, on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles (11.3 km). The branch was abandoned in 1955, along with several other branches of the Wyrley and Essington, and much of it was filled in.

Restoration plans were first voiced in 1975, and since 1990, the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust have been actively engaged in excavating and rebuilding sections of the canal as they have become available. Major projects have included an isolated aqueduct over the M6 Toll motorway, ready for when the canal reaches it.