Edgbaston Tunnel, Birmingham
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Edgbaston Tunnel, Birmingham
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 8 Sep 2008
This is approaching the eastern portal of the tunnel, which is 105 yards in length (96 metres). This is the only one of five tunnels on the summit level of the canal to be provided with a towpath. The northern parts of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal were built in the early and mid 1790s, but finishing the thirty mile route to the River Severn at Worcester took twenty-three years. Industrial goods and coal were carried down to Worcester, and often on to Bristol. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried back to the growing towns in the Midlands.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.465615
Longitude
-1.921002