Wednesbury Oak Loop | |
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![]() 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.
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