Black Country Landscapes - The Stourbridge Canal & Glass Works Walk
The Stourbridge Canal
Easily accessible and a pleasure to explore the Stourbridge Canal links the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal with the Dudley Canal to Birmingham and the Black Country
The canal has always been associated with the glass making industry, once over twenty glass works thrived in this area.
Stourbridge Glass Museum |
The canal was built in 1779 to transport coal into the region and then extended to help transport the world renowned Stourbridge glass out.
Stourbridge basin was enlarged in 1807 to cope with the sheer volume of traffic from this industrious area, even today its still busy, repurposed for pubs with outdoor dining and narrow boat moorings.
Just off Stourbridge ringroad you will find the Old Wharf Inn. Its a great place to start your walk of the canal, about five miles with excellent towpaths and about fifteen locks. The landscape is quite varied with lots of glimpses into our industrial heritage along the way, theres a pub at each end so refreshments are plenty.
Black Country Landscapes - The Stourbridge Canal & Glass Works Walk
more Black Country Landscapes in the book "As If It Were Yesterday" now available in the store.
Photography by Simon Donnelly
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