A MINI GUIDE TO waterscape.com Wolverhampton Locks Walk British Waterways Cycling and walking A short walk from The Town Centre, this linear walk Visitor Information Centre follows the towpath passing 21 locks, historic buildings Cambrian House around Wolverhampton King Edwards Road and changing landscapes. You can begin your walk at Birmingham B1 2AN either the top or bottom lock – depending on how Tel: 0121 236 4162 This leaflet is available energetic you’re feeling! in alternative formats upon request. Assuming you start at Top Lock: Access the canal from species of butterflies and is all that remains of the Location: Wednesfield Road, turn right birds, including willow warblers walkway between the canal Top Lock, off Wednesfield Road/ Wolverhampton Ring Road, and follow the towpath. We’ve and gulls. and the old Dunstall Park Wolverhampton. detailed some of the things to 4. Lock 8 - between locks 7 and railway station. Start/Finish: look out for on your walk. 8 is the site of the former Ceres 7. Lock 12 - the imposing Stour Top Lock, off Wednesfield Road/ Wolverhampton Ring Road or 1. Top Lock Cottages - built in the Works, which supplied local Valley Viaduct has 22 arches. Bottom Lock, Aldersley Junction. 18th century which are surviving farmers with bone meal. It is 8. Lock 13 - a world record Distance: 2 miles/3.2 km examples of typical canalside the origin of the name Bone Mill was set here. The Mammoth hot (approx one way) architecture. Lane, which runs adjacent to it. air balloon, flying on gas coal, Duration: 40 mins (approx one way) Type: Linear 2. Lock 4 - to the right is the former 5. Lock 9 - look out for the remains reached 37,000 feet without Conditions: The route uses Springfield Brewery, a Grade II of a disused railway turntable, oxygen in September 1862. existing towpath. listed building. It was originally which was once used by the The record still stands today. Access point: Wednesfield Road built here in 1873 to take Great Western Railway Company. 9. Lock 17 - here the canal Civic centre, Car parking: advantage of the high quality 6. Lock 10 - for a night with a becomes a lot more rural in Broad Street, Wulfrun Centre, spring water found on the site. Mander Centre. difference, revellers visit the character. In spring, you can 3. Lock 7 - Fowlers Park, on the canalside nightclub, built in an smell the heady scent of right, would once have been a old warehouse. On the opposite hawthorn and look out for sedge busy railway junction. Now the side of the canal, a bricked up warblers and water birds. landscape is given over to many doorway adjacent to the bridge
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