Marsh Lane Narrows near Fordhouses in Wolverhampton
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Marsh Lane Narrows near Fordhouses in Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger Kidd Taken: 19 Apr 2013
Looking north-north-east towards Forster Bridge (No 68), this is a narrow part of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal cut into the local Triassic sandstone. It is sometimes referred to as Autherley Narrows. The boatmen called it Pendeford Rockin' after a local farm. The only likely one I can find on Victorian maps is Pendeford Farm (Now Upper Pendeford Farm) about a kilometre (just over half a mile) to the west (left). Narrowboats cannot pass each other for six hundred metres except at two small tight passing places. One can be seen on the right in this image. A seventy feet long boat can squash into it while another passes, probably scraping on both sides! When the trees are full of foliage, this can be a very gloomy and damp length of canal.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.628547
Longitude
-2.137945