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Pictures of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

Kingswood to King's Norton.

The canal begins at King's Norton junction on the South Western outskirts of Birmingham. In the first twelve miles It drops down nineteen locks to the junction at Kingswood with the Grand Union Canal. It continues for another thirteen miles down thirty five locks to join the River Avon at Stratford upon Avon.

It starts in King's Norton with a guillotine stop lock. It stays on the level for the next ten miles to Hockley Heath using a tunnel at Brandwood, 352 yards, cuttings, embankments and a couple of short aqueducts to do this. Along this length are three draw bridges and the feeder channel from the Earlswood reservoirs which were constructed in 1816 once the canal had resumed creating locks down to Stratford. For the first six miles it cuts through suburban housing estates then comes out into the country where it stays.

After Hockley Heath the canal then drops through the nineteen Lapworth locks to the junction at Kingswood with the Grand Union, formerly the Warwick and Birmingham canal. Nine of them in a spectacular close placed flight.

Lapworth locks.
Lapworth locks.
Wooded canal.	Shirley Draw Bridge	Wooded canal.
Dickens heath	Brandwood tunnel	Kings Norton

Some pictures of this canal?

Pictures from Stratford to Kingswood.

A history of this canal. / General information on the canal.

Find our information about other canals and rivers on the canal index page.

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