Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level
Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level is a lock gate in Sandwell, England. Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level is situated nearby to Spon Lane Locks Branch Canal, as well as near Hartley Bridge.Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lock gate
- Description: architectural structure in Sandwell, West Midlands, England, UK
- Also known as: “Spon Lane Top Lock”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stewart Aqueduct and Spon Lane Locks Branch.
Stewart Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Stewart Aqueduct in Smethwick, West Midlands, England carries the BCN Old Main Line Canal over the BCN New Main Line Canal. Alongside and above the New Main Line Canal is the Stour Valley section of the West Coast Main Line, all three being bridged by the M5 motorway. Stewart Aqueduct is situated 490 feet southwest of Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level.
Spon Lane Locks Branch
Canal
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Spon Lane Locks Branch is an 800-yard section of the BCN Main Line canal in Oldbury, England, which forms a connecting canal "sliproad" where the Old BCN Main Line crosses the New BCN Main Line at the Stewart Aqueduct. Spon Lane Locks Branch is situated 1,300 feet west of Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level.
Bromford Junction
Canal
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bromford Junction is a canal junction at the foot of the Spon Lane Locks where the Spon Lane Locks Branch meets the BCN New Main Line near Oldbury in the West Midlands, England. Bromford Junction is situated 2,200 feet west of Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyng and West Bromwich.
Lyng
Hamlet
Lyng is a residential area of West Bromwich in the West Midlands of England. It is situated in the south of the town near the border with Oldbury - and part of Oldbury's Ring Road actually borders the southern part of the area.
West Bromwich
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
West Bromwich, commonly known as West Brom, is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is 7 miles northwest of Birmingham.
Oldbury
Town
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is the administrative centre of the borough.
Top Lock, Spon Lane Locks, With Attached Footbridge Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level
- Categories: lock, footbridge, and transportation
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.50673° or 52° 30′ 24″ northLongitude
-1.99563° or 1° 59′ 44″ westInception
1790Open location code
9C4WG243+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2524415477OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=lock_gateWikidata ID
Q26510113
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