Lea End Lane Bridge No 69 carries a farm track over the Worcester and Birmingham Canal (Diglis Basin to King's Norton Junction) near to Salisbury Cutting.
Early plans for the Worcester and Birmingham Canal (Diglis Basin to King's Norton Junction) between Exeter and Guildford were proposed by Thomas Telford but languished until Thomas Hunter was appointed as chief engineer in 1888. Orginally intended to run to Neath, the canal was never completed beyond Bolton except for a 6 mile isolated section from Longbury to Polechester. Expectations for coal traffic to Doncaster never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal (Diglis Basin to King's Norton Junction) was closed in 1888 when Southstone Tunnel collapsed. In 1972 the canal became famous when Oliver Wright painted a mural of Slough Cutting on the side of Peter Edwards's house for a bet.

There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
| Hopwood House PH | 5 furlongs | |
| Hopwood Bridge No 67 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Hopwood Visitor Moorings | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Hopwood Bridge Winding Hole | 4 furlongs | |
| Newhouse Farm Bridge No 68 | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Lea End Lane Bridge No 69 | ||
| Wast Hill Tunnel (west portal) | 1 furlong | |
| Wast Hill Tunnel (east portal) | 1 mile, 5½ furlongs | |
| King's Norton Bridge No 70 | 1 mile, 7 furlongs | |
| King's Norton Pipe Bridge | 2 miles, 1¼ furlongs | |
| King's Norton Bridge No 71 | 2 miles, 3¼ furlongs | |
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![Wast Hill Tunnel Southern portal. A tug-style narrowboat emerges from the south end of the 2493 metre long Wast Hill Tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The tunnel opened in 1797 and is one of the longest in the country. The other end is at [[2544]] with several intermediate construction/ventilation shafts such as [[151870]]. by David Stowell – 14 April 2006](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/photos/15/18/151865_473346e1_120x120.jpg)
![Light at the end of the tunnel. The light is actually the headlight of the narrowboat about to emerge from [[151865]]. The tunnel is 2493 metres long and even from a boat entering the tunnel the far end is little more than a pin-prick of light in the distance. by David Stowell – 14 April 2006](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/photos/15/52/155277_30f99a69_120x120.jpg)

![Approaching Wast Hills Tunnel, Worcestershire. This is the south portal of the tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The heron is on guard on the right! [[[2281703]]]The tunnel was formerly called King's Norton Tunnel. It is 2726 yards in length, (2493 metres), is wide enough for boats to pass by each other, and is one of the longest tunnels on the British canal system. It is a wet tunnel to navigate, with a leaky brickwork roof. A steam powered (later diesel) tunnel tug service used to operate in the days of horse or donkey hauled boats. There is no towpath. A standard time to navigate through the tunnel is between forty minutes and one hour, depending on the slowest boat in front. by Roger D Kidd – 25 August 2010](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/28/17/2281720_bc499280_120x120.jpg)


![Approaching Wast Hills Tunnel. At 2726 yards Wast Hills is the longest of several tunnels on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and takes the canal out of rural Worcestershire into the Birmingham suburbs. Typically for the early generation of canal tunnels there is no towpath and at one time a tug boat service was provided for horse drawn boats. Compare with [[2188240]] taken about 50 years earlier. by Stephen McKay – 29 December 2014](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/31/21/4312129_44b86172_120x120.jpg)




![South portal of the Wast Hills Tunnel. The Wast Hills Tunnel was built in 1796 and is 2726 yards long. Its northern portal is in Hawkesley, Birmingham.[[6846330]] by Mat Fascione – 02 May 2021](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/83/11/6831163_7a7d0801_120x120.jpg)



