Tame Valley Canal

Tame Valley Canal
Perry Barr top lock and keepers cottage No 86, seen in 2007
Specifications
Length8.5 miles (13.7 km)
StatusNavigable
History
Date of act1839
Geography
Connects toWalsall Canal
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
Map
Tame Valley Canal
Tame Valley Junction (Doe Bank Junction), Walsall Canal
A41 road
Aqueduct over River Tame
South Staffordshire line at Golds Hill Wharf
West Midlands Metro
A4031 (Walsall Road)
Hateley Heath Aqueduct (over Hydes Road)
Navigation Lane Aqueduct
Grand Junction Aqueduct over Chase line
and Tame Bridge Parkway station
Aqueduct over M5 motorway slip road
Aqueduct over River Tame
Toll island
Rushall Junction, Rushall Canal
M5 motorway slip road
A4041 (Newton Road)
Chimney Bridge, Green Lane (iron footbridge, 1844)
Gorse Farm (Hamstead Wharf) bridge
Pier island near Hamstead Wharf
Spouthouse Lane aqueduct
Piercy aqueduct
Freeth bridge (Tower Hill bridge) (now footbridge)
A34 road
Perry Barr locks 1, 2 and lock-keepers' cottages
Perry Barr Locks Bridge (cast iron footbridge, 1841-1844)
Perry Barr locks 3-7
Perry Reservoir (underground pipe)
M6 motorway
Perry Barr locks 8-9
Perry Barr Wharf (site of)
Perry Barr locks 10
A453 road
Perry Barr lock 11
M6
A4040 road
Perry Barr lock 12
Perry Barr lock 13
A38(M) motorway and Gravelly Hill Interchange
Cross-City Line
Toll island↑
End of Tame Valley Canal
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal (to Birmingham), Salford Junction
Grand Union Canal, Salford Junction
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal (to Fazeley)
↑ = section under Gravelly Hill Interchange

The Tame Valley Canal is a relatively late (1844) canal in the West Midlands of England. It forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. It takes its name from the roughly-parallel River Tame.