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Fens Pools
Fens Pools () is a 37.6 hectare (92.9 acre) biological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1989〔(Fens Pools ''English Nature''. Retrieved on 2008-05-26 )〕
under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and is currently managed by the Country Trust.
==History==
The pools, which consist of Grove Pool, Middle Pool and Fens Pool, where constructed as reservoirs by the Stourbridge Canal Company, which was created by an Act of Parliament passed on 2 April 1776〔(Joseph Priestley, (1831) ''Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain'' )〕 The canal opened in 1779,〔(Jim Shead's Waterways History: Stourbridge Canal )〕 and the reservoirs fed into a navigable branch which joined the canal's main line at Leys Junction, close to the top of the Stourbridge Flight. This is a series of 16 locks through which the level of the canal falls by 145 feet (44.2m), down to Wordsley Junction, where the Stourbridge Town branch joins the main line.〔Nicholson Waterways Guide, Volume 2 (2006), Harper Collins Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0-00-721110-4〕 The reservoirs formed the main source of water supply for these locks, until it was supplemented by water leaving the Dudley Canal with which the Stourbridge Canal made an end-on junction in 1792.〔
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