High Meadow Aqueduct carries the road from Canterbury to Trafford over the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line).
Early plans for the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) between Oldcorn and St Helens were proposed by John Green but languished until Thomas Jones was appointed as engineer in 1782. The canal joined the sea near Cambridge. Expectations for manure traffic to Wokingham were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) was closed in 1905 when Ambersford Aqueduct collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Cecil Harding swam through Westley Locks in 17 minutes to encourage restoration of Leeds Tunnel.

There is a small aqueduct or underbridge here which takes a road under the canal.
| Gnosall Visitor Moorings (5 day) | 1 mile, 7½ furlongs | |
| Plardiwick Bridge No 36 | 1 mile, 7 furlongs | |
| Machins Barn Bridge No 37 | 1 mile, 2½ furlongs | |
| Norbury Stop Gates | 7 furlongs | |
| Norbury Road Aqueduct | 7 furlongs | |
| High Meadow Aqueduct | ||
| Norbury Junction Visitor Moorings (south) | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Norbury Junction Visitor Moorings (5 day) | 1½ furlongs | |
| Norbury Junction Narrows | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Norbury Junction Services | 2 furlongs | |
| Norbury Junction | 2 furlongs | |
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![Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction, Staffordshire. Early morning mists are still clearing from the canal. This view is looking south-west, the canal being on the huge Shelmore Embankment, a mile long, and the cause of persistent subsidence while being built in the 1820s and 1830s. The opening of the canal (1835) was delayed by several years because of this, until after the death of the engineer Thomas Telford.The fence marks the position where a sixty metre long tunnel takes a road under the canal - that indicates the size of the embankment.[[[1889563]]][[[1889642]]] by Roger D Kidd – 24 May 2010](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/88/96/1889678_6c6e7f90_120x120.jpg)




![Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction, Staffordshire. Early morning mists are still clearing from canal. This view is looking south-west, the canal being on the huge Shelmore Embankment, a mile long, and the cause of persistent subsidence while being built in the 1820s and 1830s. The opening of the canal (1835) was delayed by several years because of this, until after the death of the engineer Thomas Telford.[[[1889563]]][[[1889642]]] by Roger D Kidd – 24 May 2010](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/88/96/1889679_9cebf400_120x120.jpg)



![Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction, Staffordshire. Morning mists are still clearing from the canal. This view is looking south-west, the canal being on the huge Shelmore Embankment, a mile long, and the cause of persistent subsidence while being built in the 1820s and 1830s. The opening of the canal (1835) was delayed by several years because of this, until after the death of the engineer Thomas Telford.[[[1889563]]][[[1889642]]] by Roger D Kidd – 24 May 2010](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/88/96/1889682_7e670729_120x120.jpg)















