Cannock Extension Canal

Cannock Extension Canal
Cannock Extension Canal
	A boat yard on the Cannock Extension Canal
Specifications
Status	Part navigable, part destroyed
Navigation authority	Canal and River Trust
History
Date of act	Privately built
Date completed	1863
Date closed	1963
Geography
Start point	Hednesford
End point	Pelsall
Connects to	Wyrley and Essington Canal

The current Cannock Extension Canal is a 1.8-mile (2.9 km) canal in England. It runs from Pelsall Junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal, north to Norton Canes Docks and forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Historically, it ran to Hednesford, and served a number of collieries, which provided the main traffic. It opened in 1863, and the northern section closed in 1963, as a result of mining subsidence.

					Cannock Collieries
					Littleworth Tramway
					Hednesford Basin
					LNWR Norton Extension Branch
					Hawkes Green Aqueduct
					Mid Cannock Colliery

					Rumer Hill Junction
					Churchbridge Branch (13 locks)
					Churchbridge Junction
					Cannock and Leacroft Colliery
					Basin and railway with tunnel
					Hatherton Canal (to Staffs & Worcs)
					Conduit Colliery


					Norton Branch Railway
					Norton Springs Branch

					M6 Toll
					A5 road (Watling Street)
					Norton Canes Docks

					Railway to Conduit Colliery
					Conduit Colliery Basin
					Lime Lane (B4154)
					Proposed new Hatherton Canal link
					former Wyrley Grove Colliery
					Grove Basin (Wyrley Grove Colliery)
					Mineral railway to colliery
					Pelsall Junction, Wyrley and Essington Canal

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