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The Pensnett Canal, also called Lord Ward's Canal was a private long canal near Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ukcanals.net/index.php/waterways-of-the-uk/191-pensnett-canal )〕 The engineer was Mathew Frost.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pensnett Canal )〕 It has now almost entirely been lost by overbuilding. It ran from Parkhead Basin at the southern portal of the Dudley Canal to the Wallows Wharf〔 to serve the Earl of Dudley's coalfields (Old Park and Wallows Collieries) and the northern part of his (now demolished) Round Oak Steelworks, where a short railway ran to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ukcanals.co.uk/waterways-of-the-uk/191-pensnett-canal )〕 The Dudley No. 1 Canal ran close to the southern part of that works. It was also known as Lord Ward's Canal although there is an identically named branch from the northern portal of the Dudley Tunnel. Baron Ward was another title of the Earl of Dudley. The canal is completely unnavigable, having been partly infilled and in many places built upon by industrial premises. The remaining canal was reported by the local council to be contaminated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www2.dudley.gov.uk/documents/Brierley_Hil_AAP_Baseline_Report_November_09/section_1233331160662.html )〕 A short length, now called Pensnett Basin, runs between Parkhead Junction and an arch of the Parkhead Viaduct, where the arch has been closed off. There is no further access to the former canal although a public footpath follows a short distance over the course between factories. The course of the canal can also be observed from a number of road bridges. ==Points of interest== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pensnett Canal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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