Tipton Green and Toll End Canals

The Tipton Green Branch was completed around 1805 with 3 locks and a length of quarter of a mile.

[1] The Toll End Branch was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1783 (along with the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Broadwaters Canal, and several other branches) to provide access to a proposed new coal mine.

From the later 20th Century Caggy's Boatyard occupied the basin at Watery Lane Junction.

Having suffered from a century or more of declining traffic due to the advent of trains and then motor vehicles, the Tipton Green Branch became disused in 1960, and the Toll End Branch in 1966, after some of the locks along the canal became immovable.

The Tipton Green locks were lined with houses which were built around the mid 19th century, but these were demolished around the time of the canal's closure.