Delph Locks | |
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Waterway | Dudley Canal |
Maintained by | Canal & River Trust |
Operation | Manual |
First built | 1799 |
Length | 70 feet (21.3 m) |
Width | 7 feet (2.1 m) |
Fall | 85 feet (26 m) |
Above sea level | top lock: 441 feet (134 m) |
Flight of 8 locks |
Delph Locks or the Delph Nine are a series of eight (originally nine) narrow canal locks on the Dudley No. 1 Canal in Brierley Hill, in the West Midlands, England. They were opened in 1779, and reopened in 1967 following restoration of the Dudley Canal and the Stourbridge Canal in a joint venture between the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Society and the British Waterways Board.