Gower Branch Canal
The Gower Branch Canal is a half-mile canal at Tividale in England, linking Albion Junction on the Birmingham Level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and Brades Hall Junction on the BCN's older Wolverhampton level, via three locks, the Brades Locks, at the Southern, Brades Hall end.- Type: Bridge
- Description: canal in the UK
- Also known as: “Gower Branch Junction Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of England and Shri Venkateswara Temple.
Church of England
Church
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The Church of England is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It was the initial church of the Anglican tradition. The church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. Church of England is situated 1 mile north of Gower Branch Canal.
Shri Venkateswara Temple
Hindu temple
The Shri Venkateswara Temple is a Hindu temple located on a 30-acre site in Tividale, a suburb of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to Venkateswara, a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. Shri Venkateswara Temple is situated 1,200 feet northeast of Gower Branch Canal.
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
School
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy is an academy for secondary aged pupils located in Tividale, Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The school was built in 1956 as The Tividale School to serve the expanding Tividale area which by this date had expanded beyond Tipton's borders into Dudley. Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy is situated 1,800 feet west of Gower Branch Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tividale and Oldbury.
Tividale
Village
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tividale is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands. It straddles the borders of the towns of Dudley, Tipton, Oldbury.
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.
Oakham
Village
Oakham is an area of Dudley, England, situated on the peak of Turners Hill, the highest point in the West Midlands county. All of the area was historically in Dudley but in 1966 approximately half of it, including the Tividale Hall and Grace Mary housing estates, was incorporated into the county borough of Warley, which in turn merged with West Bromwich in 1974 to form Sandwell.
Gower Branch Canal
- Categories: canal and transportation
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.51071° or 52° 30′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.03328° or 2° 1′ 60″ westOpen location code
9C4VGX68+7MOpenStreetMap ID
way 1478664188OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeWikidata ID
Q5590042
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to French—“Gower Branch Canal” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة فرع جاور”
- French: “canal de Gower”
- French: “Canal de Gower”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brades Hall Junction and Brades Basin Bridge.
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