Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal

Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
	The former Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal near Norbury Junction, now part of the Shropshire Union Canal.
Specifications
Maximum boat beam	7 ft 0 in (2.13 m)
Locks	26
Status	Navigable
Navigation authority	Canal & River Trust
History
Original owner	Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Company
Principal engineer	Thomas Telford
Date of act	1825
Date completed	1835
Geography
Start point	Autherley
End point	Nantwich
Connects to	Chester Canal, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was a canal in England which ran from Nantwich, where it joined the Chester Canal, to Autherley, where it joined the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Forming part of a major link between Liverpool and the industrial heartlands of the Midlands, the canal was opened in 1835, and merged with the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company in 1845, which became the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in the following year.

Birmingham and Liverpool
Junction Canal


					Chester Canal
					A534 Nantwich Basin
					Nantwich Aqueduct
				89a	Railway bridge
				88	A530 Baddington Bridge
					Moss Hall aqueduct River Weaver
					Hack Green Locks (2)

					Audlem Locks (3)
				78	A525 Audlem Bridge
					Audlem Locks (12)

					Adderley Locks (5)
				64	A53 Lords Bridge Market Drayton
					Tyrley Locks (5)
					Knighton Reservoir
					Shebdon aqueduct
				39	A519 High Bridge
					Shrewsbury Canal Norbury Jn
					abandoned railway
				35	A518 Gnosall bridge
					Wheaton Aston lock
					A5 Watling Street Stretton aqueduct
					Belvide Reservoir
				5a	M54 motorway bridge
					Autherley Jn stop lock
					Staffs and Worcs Canal

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