Wednesbury Oak Loop

Wednesbury Oak Loop
A rural scene on the Wednesbury Oak Loop
Specifications
Status	Part open, Part destroyed
Navigation authority	Canal and River Trust
History
Principal engineer	James Brindley
Date of act	1768
Date of first use	1772
Date completed	1837
Date closed	1954
Geography
Start point	Bloomfield Junction
End point	Deepfields Junction
Branch of	Birmingham Canal Navigations

The Wednesbury Oak Loop, sometimes known as the Bradley Arm, is a canal in the West Midlands, England. It is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN), and was originally part of James Brindley's main line, but became a loop when Thomas Telford's improvements of the 1830s bypassed it by the construction of the Coseley Tunnel. The south-eastern end of the loop was closed and in parts built over, following the designation of the entire loop as "abandoned" in 1954, including the section which was filled in at the beginning of the 1960s to make way for the Glebefields Estate in Tipton.