Staffordshire Walks, Compton

Dunstall Water Bridge carries Smestow Brook over the Staffs and Worcs Canal. Dunstall Water Bridge, No 63 is a Grade II listed building. “Combined aqueduct and footbridge over Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. By Brindley, Simcock and Dadford, engineers. 1770s. Brick with stone dressings. Segmental brick arch and stone-coped parapets, some repairs to coping; middle parapet divides off aqueduct to north. Soffit of aqueduct has iron plates; footway approx 3.5m wide and 20m long. Oval iron plaque to north side has number: 63. (The Canals of the British Isles: The Canals of the West Midlands: London: 1969-: P.49)”.

Dunstall Water Bridge carries Smestow Brook over the Staffs and Worcs Canal. Dunstall Water Bridge, No 63 is a Grade II listed building. “Combined aqueduct and footbridge over Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. By Brindley, Simcock and Dadford, engineers. 1770s. Brick with stone dressings. Segmental brick arch and stone-coped parapets, some repairs to coping; middle parapet divides off aqueduct to north. Soffit of aqueduct has iron plates; footway approx 3.5m wide and 20m long. Oval iron plaque to north side has number: 63. (The Canals of the British Isles: The Canals of the West Midlands: London: 1969-: P.49)”.

"This is a very important junction between the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations. In the past, this junction would have been busy with canal traffic at all hours of the day. Now known as Aldersley Junction, it was in the past referred to as Autherley No. 1 Junction. The Junction was opened in 1772. On the far side right, before the bridge, is the site of the former Birmingham Canal Navigations lock keeper’s office."

A place for lunch in the shade on a hot summer day 2010. Grade II Listed Building. “Lock and bridge. 1785; restored 1980s. James Brindley with R.Whitworth and S.Simcock, engineers. Brick with stone coping. Bridge has brick elliptical arch with stone key and straight parapets; ramp to north side; approx 3.5m wide. Lock to east has double lower and single upper gates. One of of flight of 21 locks on the Birmingham Canal, Wolverhampton level. Lock No.21 was added approximately 15 years after the main flight (c1785). The original Lock No.20 was found to be too deep. Lock No.20 was therefore altered in 1785 and Lock 21 added.” "This is a very important junction between the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations. In the past, this junction would have been busy with canal traffic at all hours of the day. Now known as Aldersley Junction, it was in the past referred to as Autherley No. 1 Junction. The Junction was opened in 1772. On your left, as you approach the junction (over the bridge), is the site of the former Birmingham Canal Navigations lock keeper’s office."