Netherton Tunnel Air Shaft 8

Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal, in the West Midlands county, England, is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. It was constructed at a 453–foot elevation, the Wednesbury or Birmingham level; it has no locks.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Turners Hill and Dudley Zoo.

Turners Hill

Peak

Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Turners Hill is the highest hill in the county of West Midlands, England at 271 metres above sea level. The hill is in the Rowley Hills range, situated in Rowley Regis, near the boundary with Dudley.

Dudley Zoo

Zoo

Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dudley Zoo & Castle is a 40-acre zoo within a 200-acre densely-wooded site located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. Dudley Zoo is situated 1 mile northwest of Netherton Tunnel Air Shaft 8.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oakham and Kates Hill.

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.