THE ANSONS BRANCH CANAL:
The Anson Branch was a short canal in the West Midlands, England. It ran for just over one mile from its junction with the Walsall Canal near Forster's bridge. It formed part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. The canal is only partially watered now and is no longer navigable. It formerly connected with the now defunct Bentley Canal which, in turn, connected with the Wyrley and Essington Canal in Wednesfield. The canal can be walked from Foresters Bridge where it joins the Walsall canal near my Walsall Canal Railway Aqueduct geocache, along the towpath passing my Ansons Aqueduct Geocache, then the water ends at BikeBoyRoy's No Time for Popcorn geocache where you can see the remains of an old canal bridge. The canal would have then ran between the side of the Cinema and the retail outlet where this cache is situated and then on across the now site of Junction 10 of the M6 Motorway. You can then see evidence of the canal on satellite images of online maps where the canal ran to Reedswood Park.
MORE INFORMATION: Wikipedia | Captain Ahab's Watery Tales
THE CACHE:
This cache can be done as a stand alone or with a few other local caches on a trip to the cinema, where parking is available very close by, or as part of a circuit with the nearby Walsall Canal Caches and Top of the Pops cache. There is room for small TBs inside and very close to Junction 10 of the Motorway with good parking for people passing through. Please bring your own pen to sign the log.MORE INFO ON THIS CACHE
NEARBY CACHES:
The Aqueduct along the Ansons Branch Canal (Aqueduct Triangle 1)