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	Lichfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lichfield (Welsh: Caerlwytgoed) is a small city and civil parish in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham.
		It is the main town in the Lichfield district.
		Lichfield Canal — a disused canal that used to run from Ogley Junction on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations, continuing close to the city and on to Huddlesford Junction, on the Coventry Canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lichfield (1916 words)

	Lichfield, United Kingdom
		Lichfield is a small city in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham.
		Lichfield sent two members to the parliament of 1304 and to a few succeeding parliaments, but the representation did not become regular until 1552; in 1867 it lost one member, and in 1885 its representation was merged in that of the county.
		Lichfield Canal is a popular route running from Ogley Junction on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations, continuing close to the city and on to Huddlesford Junction, on the Coventry Canal.
	creekin.net /c67-n193-lichfield-united-kingdom.html (1406 words)

	Wyrley & essington Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because the canal is called the Wyrley and Essington it is usually thought that Essington was a major part of the route and the canal's success.
		Straight away the BCN built a connecting line between the Walsall Canal and the Walsall branch of the Wyrley and Essington Canal in Walsall town Centre.A second connection, the Bentley Canal, was built between Wednesfield on the Wyrley and Essington Canal and Darlaston on the Walsall Canal's Anson Branch.
		For many decades the Wyrley and Essington Canal continued to do well, this was especially due to the success of the Cannock Extension.However, in the early part of the 1900's trade began to drop back and by the end of WW2 the canal was making a big loss.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/wyrleyessingtonroot.htm (1534 words)

	Coming Back to Life-The Lichfield Canal
		The Lichfield Canal is certainly starting to move ahead with its restoration thanks to the Lichfield and Hatherton Trust.
		The canal covers a distance of just under 7 miles from Ogley Junction on the northern tip of the BCN to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal.
		It was constructed between 1794 and 1797 as the Ogley Locks Section of the Wyrley and Essington Canal.
	www.starling101.btinternet.co.uk /canals/lichfield.htm (232 words)

	Canal restoration news
		Cromford Canal - The Friends of Cromford Canal was formed in March 2002 to campaign to reopen the entire length of the Cromford Canal including the route to Pinxton.
		The Rochdale Canal spans the Pennines for 32 miles from the centre of Manchester to its junction with the Calder and Hebble Navigation in Sowerby Bridge.
		The Bill empowering construction of the canal received Royal Assent in 1795 and the canal was cut from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, near Melksham, to the river Thames at Abingdon during the years 1796 to 1810.
	www.canaljunction.com /news/restor1.htm (5308 words)

	A Brief History of Lichfield
		Lichfield did not have stone walls but it did have a ditch and an earth embankment probably with a wooden stockade on top.
		That was a serious blow to Lichfield as it meant there were no more pilgrims visiting the town and spending their money.
		However in 1548 Lichfield was incorporated, that is it was given a corporation and a mayor.
	www.localhistories.org /lichfield.html (1144 words)

	CANNOCK CHASE - CANALS
		Two other canals branch off this 'Cannock Circular Navigation', namely the Birmingham Canal, and the Coventry and Fazely Canal, both of which were built in 1768, before the Wyrley and Essington was projected.
		One more canal is worthy of note, the Shropshire Union Canal, which lies beyond the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, effectively connecting those counties with Shropshire, Cheshire and the trans-Atlantic port of Liverpool.
		The canal was constructed in 1792 to connect the Birmingham Canal near Wolverhampton with the Coventry and Fazeley Canal east of Lichfield, passing through Wednesfield, Bloxwich, Wyrley and Brownhills, on its journey.
	www.roman-britain.org /chase/_canals.htm (1951 words)

	Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust Ltd - Lichfield Canal Aqueduct (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To ensure that the Lichfield Canal would not be blocked by the M6 Toll motorway it was necessary to construct an aqueduct to carry the canal over the new road.
		In January 2001 the David Suchet Appeal was launched to raise funds to provide motorway crossings for both the Hatherton and the Lichfield canals.
		The Lichfield Canal Aqueduct has at last been put in place across the M6 Toll, ensuring that the new motorway is no longer a threat to restoration of our two canals.
	www.lhcrt.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /aqueduct.htm (2296 words)

	GENUKI: Lichfield
		Haselour, seven and a half miles E of Lichfield, is an extra-parochial manor of 570 acres, containing only 5 houses, 29 inhabitants, and a deserted chapel, which is a prebend of Lichfield Cathedral.
		At Dernford, in a picturesque valley near the canal, is a large corn mill, and at a short distance is Fulfen, an extra-parochial farm, anciently belonging to the Fulfen family, of whom it was purchased by Sir Richard Dyott, in 1639.
		Lichfield Record Office holds electoral registers for the City & County of Lichfield Constituency for the period 1832-1841.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/STS/Lichfield/index.html (1506 words)

	Chasewater History Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As stated in the canals section, the canal had opened on 8th May 1797 but had to close shortly after due to lack of water, The Company was under extreme pressure to open the canal again and so the Crane Brook was re-diverted to fill the reservoir.
		The canal company acted quickly and paid generous sums as compensation to all who had suffered loses, and immediately set about rebuilding the dam.It was decided the new dam would be thicker and wider and the inner walls would be lined with limestone.
		It would be a difficult task to reopen this canal as most of the land has been built upon or returned to the plough.
	www.chasesc.org.uk /cwh.htm (707 words)

	M6 Toll - Overview
		The system of canals in the United Kingdom played an important part in the transition from a largely agricultural land to an industrial one and is of considerable historical interest.
		As part of construction, we were committed to provide the foundations for an aqueduct for the Lichfield Canal, where it crosses the M6 Toll north of Muckley Corner.
		The Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust raised sufficient funds under the David Suchet Appeal to construct a trough for the aqueduct, which was installed in August 2003.
	www.m6toll.co.uk /about/environment.asp (638 words)

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		Generally speaking, the conglomeration of canals to the north east side of the Birmingham Level is referred to as the "Northern BCN".
		The Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust is confident that plans to reinstate links with the Coventry Canal via the Ogley Branch of the Wyrley and Essington (the "Lichfield" Canal) and the Hatherton Branch with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal are beginning to bear fruit.
		The Titford Canal at 511 feet is the summit level of the BCN, but suffers from perennial water shortages, leading to lack of use.
	www.bcn-society.co.uk /thebcns.html (2252 words)

	Old Glory - Magazine - Sample Article Two (2)
		Formed in 1988, the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust is a registered charity whose aim is straightforward – to restore the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal and re-open a lost waterway link between Staffordshire and the West Midlands.
		The name Lichfield Canal has been given to the disused part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal which ran from Ogley Junction on the BCN to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal a distance of some seven miles.
		However the new canal was linked to the Hatherton Branch of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal through an impressive flight of 13 locks at Churchbridge, once described as one of the most impressive flights in the country but now sadly lost.
	www.oldglory.co.uk /archive/12may04/ft2.htm (765 words)

	In Awe of Nature
		As far back as 1758 the Derbyshire born canal pioneer James Brindley had surveyed a route estimating the cost of building at £10,000; the project was revised again in 1763-4 with the involvement of Josiah Wedgwood and the Lunar men Erasmus Darwin and Matthew Boulton, among others.
		And while the Lichfield canal remained stillborn, a wider project for a canal linking the Trent and the Mersey was conceived.
		A labour of the ingenuity and hard work of his countrymen, the canal ran from the mouth of the river Derwent in Derbyshire to near Stone in Staffordshire as part of the Grand Canal from the Trent to the Mersey.
	www.lichfieldrambler.co.uk /awe.htm (4997 words)

	Societies and restoration
		The society was formed in 1987 with the aims of preserving the line of the canal, the immediate restoration for multi-purpose recreation of all parts of the canal which remain in water, the eventual restoration of the whole canal to full navigable standard and to foster interest in the canal.
		The Thames and Medway Canal Association was formed in 1976 to halt the deterioration of the canal and its environs and promote its use as a multipurpose amenity.
		The Worcester & Birmingham Canal Society was formed in 1969 to promote the restoration, conservation and improvement of the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and adjacent waterways for the use and benefit of the public.
	www.thewaterweb.net /Waterweb/Restoration.htm (2291 words)

	Downloads \| Environment \| Planning \| Development planning
		Lichfield District Council has prepared this issues paper to consider the need to identify employment proposals in accordance with the Staffordshire Structure Plan 1996 — 2011, which requires the provision of approximately 185 hectares (gross) of employment land in Lichfield District for the period 1996 — 2011.
		Lichfield District Council, in conjunction with Donaldsons, are seeking to appoint a preferred development partner to facilitate development of the Friary Outer site in accordance with the Lichfield City Centre Strategy (February 2003).
		Lichfield District Council has prepared this issues paper to consider the need to identify housing proposals in accordance with the new Staffordshire Structure Plan, which requires the provision of 7800 new homes in Lichfield District for the period 1996-2011.
	www.lichfielddc.gov.uk /site/scripts/downloads.php?categoryID=374 (4406 words)

	Lichfield Canal: Waterscape.com
		From Ogley Junction on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations, the Lichfield Canal runs for seven miles to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal.
		The Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust is co-ordinating group for restoration of the eponymous canals, both of which link the under-used northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to popular countryside waterways.
		Restoration of the Lichfield Canal was threatened by the construction of the M6 Toll motorway around the north of Birmingham, which threatened to bulldoze the canal's route - making restoration a prohibitively expensive business.
	www.waterscape.com /Lichfield_Canal (236 words)

	News May 2002
		A realigned canal would use the existing farm access tunnel, which also accommodates the diverted towpath, and because of the restricted width through the culvert the towpath would be retractable for those odd occasions when broad-beam craft were passing through.
		The canal crossed the River Neath on an aqueduct until said aqueduct was swept away by floods in 1964.
		The towpath which followed the canal over the aqueduct was a right of way, and whatever the future of the canal held, there was a legal responsibility on the local authority to reinstate the right of way.
	www.towpath.org.uk /news0502.html (1249 words)

	Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust Ltd
		This was purchased in 1995 by Lichfield District Council, financed by a Derelict Land Grant and licensed to the Trust.
		This tells that the canal was twenty-eight feet wide at top water and sixteen feet at the bottom and four and a half feet deep - the sloping sides being intended to prevent erosion.
		Modern highway design criteria combined with the fact that the water level is tied to the Coventry Canal and also the slope of the land on the Whittington side meant that extensive re-grading of the road was involved, adding to the cost.
	www.lhcrt.org.uk /lich.htm (2338 words)

	Waterway Recovery Group Forestry Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lichfield Canal may be best known to many people as the one with the isolated section going over the M6 Toll Road.
		The aim of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust is to "restore the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal to re-open waterway links between Staffordshire and the West Midlands, for the benefit of the environment, amenity and prosperity of the people of the Region and to enhance the nation's inland waterway system."
		In order to restore the lock completely and also the section of canal between locks 24 and 25 a reasonably mature sycamore with three main stems will need to be removed.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /alison_johnson/Lichfield.htm (312 words)

	Lichfield: The U.S. Army On Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Several letters included references to an unidentified "Beast of Lichfield" at whose hands at least one death was said to have occurred.
		It was the kind of twist that Andy Griffith, as the fictional lawyer Matlock, would resort to almost every week in a television series forty years later, except that this scene was devoid of the lightheartedness that characterized that TV series.
		Although the defense witnesses initially denied that any brutality had ever taken place in the Lichfield guardhouses, one by one they began returning to the witness stand to purge themselves of perjury, stating they had been instructed to to lie on the witness stand.
	www.historyplace.com /pointsofview/lichfield.htm (2846 words)

	Walsall Branch Canal
		The Canals of Wallsall 50 minutes approx., Produced by Laurence Hogg Productions The canals of Walsall and the surrounding area, their trade and history is covered in archive and present day images.
		Originally the canal carried on from Anglesey Junction, past Lichfield, to join the Coventry Canal at Huddlesford.
		Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust : Campaigns for the restoration of the Lichfield Canal, and the Hatherton Canal through Cannock.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Walsall-Branch-Canal.html (1226 words)

	bymnews.com
		Waterways 2025 identifies a series of new canals, lost waterways and river projects, which could be completed in the next 20 years.
		Lichfield Canal - connecting the northern Birmingham Canals with the Coventry Canal
		Wilts & Berks Canal - the longest unrestored canal in Britain
	www.bymnews.com /new/content/view/1033/56 (467 words)

	St. John the Baptist Church - Armitage - Lichfield Diocese
		In 1777, when the canal was completed, things began to change.
		The village which straddles the main West Coast railway line and the Trent Mersey Canal, has quadrupled in size in the last 35 years.
		It is reputed that the remains of the original Handsacre parish church are buried beneath the railway embankment.
	www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org /rugeley/stjohn/armitage.htm (552 words)

	IWA
		Waterway Recovery Group organises week-long residential holidays called ‘Canal Camps’, where volunteers help restore the derelict inland waterways of Britain.
		Canal Camp dates for 2002 are as follows:-
		The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) is a registered charity, founded in 1946 and campaigns for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and development of the inland waterways.
	www.ianb10.bravepages.com /canals/iwa.htm (185 words)

	Grand Waterways Voyages - Canal Narrowboat Holidays
		These two canals were enemies in the early years and boats had to be unloaded on one side of the bar and reloaded on the other so that goods could proceed on their journey.
		The Grand Junction Canal later known as the Grand Union Canal was opened in 1780 but had two major tunnels at Blisworth (opened 1805) and Braunston (opened 1796).
		You pass the defunct Huddlesford Junction with the Lichfield Canal (soon to be restored to its former glory).
	www.gwvboats.co.uk /routes.htm (1377 words)

	Martin Heath Hall (Lichfield Canal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The nearest train stations are Lichfield City and Lichfield Trent Valley.
		Please check with the leader which station is most convenient for you to be picked up from.
		The nearest coach station is Lichfield City (at the train station).
	www.wrg.org.uk /halls/martinh.htm (135 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Staffordshire \| TV star to open new canal bridge
		The opening of Cappers Bridge by the Poirot star marks a major landmark in a project to restore and reopen the once derelict Lichfield Canal.
		The seven-mile Lichfield Canal was built between 1794 and 1797 and was an economic artery.
		Much of the canal was filled in, and the original humpback bridge that carried Cappers Lane was levelled.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/staffordshire/4928558.stm (284 words)

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