The Lichfield Canal covers a distance of just over seven miles through 30 locks from Ogley Junction on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal.

Built between 1794 and 1797 as the Ogley Locks Section of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, the right to navigation was extinguished by The British Transport Commission Act, 1954 and much of the canal was drained and filled in during the 1960s.

The restoration route follows the original route, except for four diversions in order to avoid developments since abandonment. In 2009, a detailed Feasibility Report was produced by renowned consultants WS Atkins. Our strategy explains how we will achieve our long term goal of restoration and operational plan forms the bridge between our strategy, the projects and programmes on our sites, and what we do behind the scenes.

Maps

We have may different maps of the canal route and walking routes available on our maps page.

The sites

Find out more about each of our sites. (Some of these links will take you to archive pages, please bear with us while we update them.)