WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL OLD BIRCHILLS EIGHTH LOCK FROM SOUTH (TOP LOCK) WALSALL LOCKS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186765
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL OLD BIRCHILLS EIGHTH LOCK FROM SOUTH (TOP LOCK) WALSALL LOCKS
Statutory Address:: WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL OLD BIRCHILLS EIGHTH LOCK FROM SOUTH (TOP LOCK) WALSALL LOCKS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186765
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL OLD BIRCHILLS EIGHTH LOCK FROM SOUTH (TOP LOCK) WALSALL LOCKS
Statutory Address 1:: WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL OLD BIRCHILLS EIGHTH LOCK FROM SOUTH (TOP LOCK) WALSALL LOCKS

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL OLD BIRCHILLS EIGHTH LOCK FROM SOUTH (TOP LOCK) WALSALL LOCKS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 00534 99412

Details

WALSALL MB WALSALL JUNCTION CANAL SP 09 NW OLD BIRCHILLS 7/113 Eighth lock from south (top lock) Walsall Locks GV II

Lock on Walsall Junction Canal. Built in 1841 to join the Walsall Canal to the Birchills Branch of the Wyreley Canal. Brick with some sandstone kerbstones to lock chamber. Single gates and cast iron sluice gear. Forms part of a flight of eight locks (qv). (Paget-Tomlinson, Edward W, The Complete Book of Canal and River Navigations, 1978, p 94).

Listing NGR: SP0053499412

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Legacy System number:: 219171
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Paget Tomlinson, W , The Complete Book of Canal and River Navigations, (1978), 94

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.