Shelmore Embankment
Shelmore Embankment is a embankment on the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) between Norbury Junction Narrows and Norbury Stop Gates
It is 1750 yards long.
It also contains the following places:
- Norbury Junction Visitor Moorings (5 day)
- Norbury Junction Visitor Moorings (south)
- High Meadow Aqueduct
- Norbury Road Aqueduct
| Plardiwick Bridge No 36 | ¼ furlongs | |
| Machins Barn Bridge No 37 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Norbury Stop Gates | ||
| Norbury Road Aqueduct | a few yards | |
| High Meadow Aqueduct | 7 furlongs | |
Norbury Junction Visitor Moorings (south)  | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
| Norbury Junction Visitor Moorings (5 day) | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| Norbury Junction Narrows | ||
Norbury Junction Services    | a few yards | |
| Norbury Junction | ¼ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia pages that might relate to Shelmore Embankment
[William Cubitt]
Oxford Canal at Rugby and at Newbold tunnel Shropshire Union Canal at Shelmore Embankment Diglis Lock on the River Severn at Worcester Foord Viaduct (1844)
[Shropshire Union Canal]
(Shropshire). The canal then continues as the 1-mile-long (1.6 km) Shelmore Embankment. Repeated soil slippage during construction meant that this was the
[Four Counties Ring]
a British Waterways depot at the location. Just to the south is Shelmore Embankment, pierced by two road tunnels. There were continual problems with
[Norbury Junction]
was a massive embankment, which starts just below the site of the junction, and is punctured by two road tunnels. Shelmore embankment proved difficult
[Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal]
construct a diversion around the game reserves of Lord Anson at Shelmore, which involved an embankment around 1 mile (1.6 km) long and up to 60 feet (18 m) high
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Mar 9, 2020 ... English: Shropshire Union Canal on Shelmore Embankment, Staffordshire. On the left the canal is supported by the mile long Shelmore ...
Shelmore Embankment. Previous · Next · List. Winter Scenes - 46. Jenny taking a constitutional along the towing path early one frosty morning. Note the health ...
Nov 26, 2007 ... The briefest of glimpses of the only kingfisher we saw on this trip on the embankment which caused the good Mr Telford many years of trouble.
Shelmore embankment proved difficult to engineer, as the marl soil used to build it kept slipping. It was the last part of the canal to be completed, as it took five and ...
Jul 7, 2009 ... On the left the canal is supported by the mile long Shelmore Embankment. While the contractors tried to complete the mighty task, the bank ...
Lord Anson, concerned about the preservation of his pheasants in Shelmore ... waggons on the solid part of the embankment and be run with wheelbarrows in ...
Oct 24, 2009 ... For those in doubt, the Shelmore Embankment is the long high embankment immediately to the south of Norbury Junction. It's not the ...
At Shelmore embankment you can still see the problems too. Between 1833 and 1835 when the canal finally opened this embankment caused enormous ...
Mar 9, 2020 ... The canal is already on a low embankment as it heads north-west towards the enormous mile long Shelmore Embankment below the woods ...