Moorings on the Dudley Canal

The Dudley Canal has two lines. Line No. 1 runs from the Stourbridge Canal at the foot of the Delph Locks through Dudley Tunnel to the Birmingham Canal at Tipton. Line No. 2 leaves it at Park Head Junction and heads east through the 537-yard Gosty Hill Tunnel to Hawne Basin, just beyond which is the present head of navigation. The rest of Line No. 2 to the Worcester & Birmingham Canal at Selly Oak, including the Lapal Tunnel, has been closed since 1917, and volunteer trusts are working to restore parts of it.

The Canal & River Trust manages the navigable sections. The Delph Locks are still known as the Nine Locks, although they were rebuilt as a flight of eight in 1858. Dudley Tunnel, 3,154 yards long, reopened to the public in 1973, and at its northern end the Black Country Living Museum runs boat trips into the tunnel and the old mines from a restored arm.

Moorings on the Dudley Canal include Hawne Basin, a former railway interchange basin that has been refurbished as a marina and is home to the Coombeswood Canal Trust, and a short arm on the west bank managed by the Withymoor Island Trust and used for moorings.