| Map of Wednesbury Oak Loop (shown in pink), an original part of James Brindley's Birmingham Canal, and its modern neighbours. The canals as they stand today are shown as solid lines. The Bradley Branch (top of map) linked the BCN Old Main Line and the Walsall Canal through nine locks. |
The Bradley Branch or Bradley Locks Branch was a short canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in West Midlands (county), England. It is now disused and largely dry.
Completed in 1849 it ran from the Wednesbury Oak Loop of the BCN Old Main Line, descending nine locks, [1] to Moorcroft Junction on the Walsall Canal. It closed in 1961.[2] Today the western seven locks and canal have been filled in and are used as a public path and open space. The eastern two locks have been restored, filled in and culverted, with the canal remaining as a reed-filled stream as far as Moorcroft Junction.[2]
| Point | Coordinates (Links to map resources) |
OS Grid Ref | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley Branch Junction[3] | SO958944 | Wednesbury Oak Loop of BCN Old Main Line (estimated) | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 9 | SO958944 | (estimated) | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 8 | SO959944 | (estimated) | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 7 | SO960945 | (estimated) | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 6 | SO961945 | (estimated) | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 5 | SO961946 | (estimated) | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 4 | SO962946 | (estimated) | |
| Branch | SO963946 | ||
| Branch terminus | SO964944 | ||
| Bradley Branch Lock 3 | SO965947 | ||
| Great Bridge Road (A4098) | SO965947 | ||
| Bradley Branch Lock 2 | SO966948 | ||
| Midland Metro | SO967949 | Original Great Western Railway | |
| Bradley Branch Lock 1 | SO967949 | ||
| Moorcroft Junction | SO972951 | Walsall Canal |