Description
Follows the towpath of the Birmingham Canal. Fixes the error in Wolcos one which failed to indicate the route from the Railway Station to the canal in Wolverhampton
Follows the towpath of the Birmingham Canal. Fixes the error in Wolcos one which failed to indicate the route from the Railway Station to the canal in Wolverhampton
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Wolverhampton
Grid Ref
SO9193598870
Lat / Lon
52.58759° / -2.12047°
Easting / Northing
391,935E / 298,870N
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Coseley
Grid Ref
SO9426794081
Lat / Lon
52.54457° / -2.08596°
Easting / Northing
394,267E / 294,081N
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Wolverhampton | |
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Grid Ref | SO9193598870 |
Lat / Lon | 52.58759° / -2.12047° |
Easting / Northing | 391,935E / 298,870N |
What3Words | tested.counts.feed |
Coseley | |
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Grid Ref | SO9426794081 |
Lat / Lon | 52.54457° / -2.08596° |
Easting / Northing | 394,267E / 294,081N |
What3Words | atomic.rapid.lowest |
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reviews
Steve Litchfield
02 Jan 2024 (edited 12 Jan 2024)I completed this walk yesterday travelling northwards from Coseley. I really enjoyed the walk. After having read the other reviews, I don't have any other detail to add other than it's an interesting journey mainly along the canal and has historic industrial interest. Without any locks on the canal throughout the walk, it is also therefore very level and could easily be wheeled.
Marion Frankland
02 Jul 2023As below with the route description. Walked (ran) in the summer, and was a little overgrown in places, but not impassable.
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Saira
22 May 2023I don't have very much to add to the below reviews! This was a brilliant Slow Way - direct, offroad, easy to follow and very enjoyable. I walked with this route Mary - we spotted a lot of wildfowl along the way, as well as colourful grafetti and interesting buildings. Would defo recommend!.
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Mary Oz
18 May 2023From the Coseley Station side road, an alleyway led down to the canal towpath which the route stuck to all the way to Wolverhampton. It was well-surfaced but there was at least one cycle barrier, and there some brick-paved bridges over side branches of the canal.
The A463 was a high flyover, and after passing below the railway there was an intriguing aluminium sculpture of interlocking cylinders.
There were factories, graffiti, and lots of pipe bridges, but it still felt pleasantly quiet and almost rural. The surroundings became more industrial as we neared Wolverhampton Station, but still with lots of waterfowl around. We saw herons, mallards, Canada geese, swans, moorhens and coots; many of them with cute fluffy babies!
Wolverhampton Tunnel, beneath a muti-storey car park, was surprisingly bright and airy, before we zigzagged past a couple of canal basins and back to the station. There was plenty of heritage around from the canal age and the railway age. We also found a nice tiled and railway themed pub, The Great Western, just beyond the railway to round off an excellent day’s Slow Waying!.
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David Sanderson
23 Oct 2022Very direct, very offroad, very easy to follow. I walked this from Coseley to Wolverhampton. It comprises of a peaceful stroll along the Birmingham Canal with a residential walk at the Coseley end and a walk along the pavement of the main road in central Wolverhampton at the other. The only concern from a Slow Ways point of view is the lack of facilities on the way. You pass no shops until you get to the Wolverhampton end and those are the ones in the station. At only 7km that's not going to lose it a star. I wore boots but, despite the rain, I could have happily worn shoes. This route is safe, accessible and seems to take no time to walk. There was no end of wildfowl on the canal which made the walk even better. There are links to trains and buses at either end. A really good Slow Way.
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