Location
Most of the Wyrley and Essington Canal was level, and connected to the 473 feet (144 m) Wolverhampton Level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. From the junction, the Anglesey Branch heads to the north west for 1.5 miles (2.4 km), passing under Anglesey Bridge almost immediately, and then crossing a railway track on an aqueduct, to reach Anglesey Basin. To the south, the canal is level for 6.2 miles (10.0 km) to Longwood Junction via the Daw End Branch, where it joins the Rushall Canal, or for 16.2 miles (26.1 km) along the main line to Horseley Fields Junction and the BCN Main Line to Wolverhampton and Birmingham.
The branch to Lichfield and Huddlesford heads east, and the start of the canal is spanned by a grade II listed cast iron bridge. Each side of the elliptical arch is made from two castings, which are bolted together in the centre, and one of them carries the inscription "Horseley Ironworks 1829".
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