Brinepit Bridge No 79 carries a footpath over the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Great Haywood to Etruria).
The Act of Parliament for the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Great Haywood to Etruria) was passed on January 1 1888 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlebury to London canal at Willchester, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Thurrock at Bury caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Southworth instead. "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Thomas Taylor describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Arun Tunnel.

There is a bridge here which takes a track over the canal.
| Gayton Brook Aqueduct | 6½ furlongs | |
| Weston Bridge No 80 | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Weston Bridge Aqueduct | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Weston Salt Works Arm | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Weston Lock No 24 | a few yards | |
| Brinepit Bridge No 79 | ||
| Ingestre Winding Hole | 3½ furlongs | |
| Amerton Brook Aqueduct | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Ingestre Bridge No 78 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Pasturefields Bridge No 77 | 1 mile, 2½ furlongs | |
| Hoo Mill Lock No 23 | 1 mile, 6½ furlongs | |
- Trent & Mersey Canal Society – founded in 1974 — associated with Trent and Mersey Canal
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![Weston Lock and Brinepit Bridge in Staffordshire. Weston Lock is No 24 on the Trent and Mersey Canal, and provides a fall (or rise) of 8 feet (2·4 metres)See also ([[[553998]]]) by Roger D Kidd – 11 October 2007](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/photos/59/98/599803_1ca1a6ea_120x120.jpg)












![Beware the cill in a canal lock. The cill which MUST be avoided by boat crews descending the lock is clearly in view in the image. Catching the stern of the boat on this as the water drains from the lock can result in the boat flooding from the bow and sinking.Brinepit Lock (Weston Lock) here is No 24 on the Trent and Mersey Canal. The lock provides a rise of eight feet (2·4 metres). The top gate set up needs some maintenance as it is leaking.[[[6320493]]] by Roger D Kidd – 17 September 2019](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/32/04/6320498_7c2448aa_120x120.jpg)





