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List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom

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This List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of canal junctions in the United Kingdom that have articles in Wikipedia, in alphabetical order.

Junction Canals Location Image
Aldersley Junction, West Midlands The Birmingham Main Line Canal terminates here.

It meets the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Oxley, Wolverhampton, and one kilometre south of Autherley Junction.

grid reference SJ902011
Aston Junction, West Midlands Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Digbeth Branch Canal grid reference SP076881
Autherley Junction, West Midlands Shropshire Union Canal, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal grid reference SJ901020
Barbridge Junction The Shropshire Union Canal Middlewich Branch terminates here. It meets the Shropshire Union Canal Main Line grid reference SJ612570
Birchills Junction Walsall Canal, Wyrley and Essington Canal main line grid reference SK002000
Bordesley Junction, West Midlands Grand Union Canal splits into mainline and north-east arm grid reference SP084864
Bromford Junction, West Midlands BCN New Main Line, Spon Lane Locks Branch grid reference SO996899
Catshill Junction Wyrley and Essington Canal main line, Daw End Branch Canal grid reference SK048048
Dukinfield Junction, Greater Manchester Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal grid reference SJ933984 Dukinfield Junction
Fazeley Junction, Staffordshire Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Coventry Canal grid reference SK202020
Fradley Junction, Staffordshire Coventry Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal grid reference SK140139
Frankton Junction, Shropshire Montgomery Canal, Llangollen Canal grid reference SJ369318
Hardings Wood Junction, Staffordshire Macclesfield Canal (Hall Green Branch), Trent and Mersey Canal grid reference SJ834546
Hawkesbury Junction, Warwickshire Oxford Canal, Coventry Canal grid reference SP360846
Haywood Junction, Staffordshire Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal grid reference SJ994229
Horseley Fields Junction, West Midlands BCN Main Line, Wyrley and Essington Canal grid reference SO923986
Huddlesford Junction, Staffordshire Coventry Canal, Wyrley and Essington Canal grid reference SK150095
Hurleston Junction, Cheshire Llangollen Canal, Shropshire Union Canal main line grid reference SJ625553
Kings Norton Junction Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, Worcester and Birmingham Canal grid reference SP052794
Kingswood Junction Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, Grand Union Canal grid reference SP185709
Browning's Pool, Little Venice, London Grand Union Canal, Regent's Canal grid reference TQ261818
Marple Junction Macclesfield Canal, Peak Forest Canal grid reference SJ961884
Norbury Junction Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (later Shropshire Union Canal), and branch linking to Shrewsbury Canal grid reference SJ793228
Ogley Junction On the Wyrley and Essington Canal where the Anglesey Branch leaves the main line grid reference SK056060
Old Turn Junction The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal meets the BCN Main Line grid reference SP059868
Pelsall Junction Southern limit of the Cannock Extension Canal where it meets the Wyrley and Essington Canal main line grid reference SK018044
Rumer Hill Junction Former junction - now lost - on the Cannock Extension Canal where the Churchbridge Branch left to join the Hatherton Canal grid reference SJ991090
Rushall Junction Southern limit of the Rushall Canal where it meets the Tame Valley Canal grid reference SP030947
Salford Junction The Grand Union Canal and Tame Valley Canal meet the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal grid reference SP095901
Smethwick Junction The junction of the BCN Old Main Line and the BCN New Main Line grid reference SP028890
Spon Lane Junction Originally the junction of the Birmingham Canal (proceeding south-west and east) and the Wednesbury Canal (proceeding west), this now forms the junction at the top of the "canal slip road" down to the BCN New Main Line (proceeding west) and the BCN Old Main Line (proceeding south-west and east). grid reference SP003898
Stockingfield Junction Originally a terminus it became the junction for the Glasgow Branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1777 running to Port Dundas via Spiers Wharf by 1790. The Monkland Canal joined the branch at the Port Dundas basin. grid reference NS571689
Tame Valley Junction Western limit of the Tame Valley Canal where it meets the Walsall Canal grid reference SO976936
Wappenshall Junction The Newport Branch Canal joins the Shrewsbury Canal. The canals here are no longer navigable but the junction still exists. grid reference SJ662145

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