Priestley's Bridge No 4 carries a footpath over the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) a short distance from Kirklees.
Early plans of what would become the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) were drawn up by Oliver Hunter in 1835 but problems with Newport Embankment caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1876. Expectations for coal traffic to Ashfield were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) was closed in 1888 when Wesscroft Tunnel collapsed. Despite the claim in "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Arthur Jones, there is no evidence that Cecil Clarke ever painted a mural of Derby Cutting on the side of John Parker's house live on television

There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.
| Heath Crescent Tunnel No 5B (northern entrance) | 6¼ furlongs | |
| Heath Crescent Tunnel No 5B (southern entrance) | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Red Lane Old Bridge No 5 | 5½ furlongs | |
| Red Lane New Bridge No 5A | 5 furlongs | |
| Stoke Heath Basin | 4 furlongs | |
| Priestley's Bridge No 4 | ||
| William Henry Bridge Winding Hole | 3½ furlongs | |
| William Henry Bridge No 3 | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Cash's Hundred Houses | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Cash's Lane Bridge No 2 | 6¼ furlongs | |
| Cash's Lane Pipe Bridge | 6½ furlongs | |
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![A stroll along the Coventry Canal to Hawkesbury Junction [6]. Bridge number 4 carries Stoney Stanton Road (B4109) over the canal.The narrow canal was built to connect the city of Coventry with the Trent & Mersey Canal, some 38 miles distant, to exploit the Warwickshire coalfields. Construction of the canal took 20 years before it was complete in 1769. The canal between the basin in Coventry and Hawkesbury junction was made a conservation area in 2012. by Michael Dibb – 23 September 2021](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/12/11/7121122_d9f6d034_120x120.jpg)

![Panels on Priestley's Bridge . The ceramic and concrete panels on the inner parapet of Priestley's Bridge [[7016057]] which carries Stoney Stanton Road, B4109, over the Coventry Canal date from 1996. Titled Reflections they are by Bhajan Junjan and Naida Hussein of Arts Exchange with the Muslim ladies group at the Al-Nisa Centre. by Gerald England – 24 September 2021](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/01/66/7016679_2106f2ba_120x120.jpg)













![Stoney Stanton Road. The B4109 above Priestley's Bridge [[7016057]] over the Coventry Canal. by Gerald England – 24 September 2021](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/01/67/7016720_27da9e5e_120x120.jpg)








![Coventry at War & Peace: Stoney Stanton Road, looking north from Canal Bridge no. 4. This is another photo of Stoney Stanton Road and Coventry Peace House (see also [[[6874775]]] and [[[6874864]]]), taken during a walk around Foleshill in August 2021 with the Coventry Society, led by David Fry, author of The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill (Simanda Press, Berkswell, 2018).On the walk we discussed this well-known photograph https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/miscfr2080.htm of a naval gun being transported on the Foleshill branch railway across Stoney Stanton Road from the Coventry Ordnance Works. The track crossed the road in the foreground of this geograph photo. The Ordnance Works, which closed in the 1920s, stood behind the row of houses (now painted yellow & white) that are now the Coventry Peace House housing co-op, and it occupied much of the land between the canal and Red Lane. The photo of the naval gun and its onlookers is reproduced in Forgotten Foleshill on p89, where it is dated June 1912. To the right, beyond the railway, can be seen a row of three-storey ribbon-weavers' houses with their distinctive 'top-shop' windows on the top floor. From their position these are clearly the two-storey Peace House buildings. Fry & Smith comment,](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/93/97/6939798_0f017248_120x120.jpg)


