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

v t e Cannock Extension Canal
Legend
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

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.^[1] 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.