Icknield Port Loop
The Icknield Port Loop (originally called the Rotton Park Loop)[1] is a ⅔-mile section of the eighteenth-century Old BCN Main Line canal in Birmingham, Warwickshire about two miles west of the city centre, which opened to traffic on 6 November 1769, and was bypassed in September 1827 by a straight 550-yd section of the New BCN Main Line.[1] Most of the 56 acres of enclosed land now being derelict, the canal serves only the Canal & River Trust (British Waterways) maintenance depot at Icknield Port and conveys water from Edgbaston Reservoir to the BCN Main Line. There is no pedestrian or vehicular access. Icknield Port (Loop) takes its name from the Roman Icknield Street which passed nearby, though its exact route is unknown.
The Canal & River Trust depot with its buildings and crane are Grade II listed buildings.[2][3][4][5][6]
Redevelopment plan
Birmingham City Council has plans for the regeneration of the area, including moorings, 1,150 new homes, shops, park and playground, and a ten-storey hotel.[7][8]
Points of interest
- Sandy Turn Junction: 52°28’58"N, 1°55’33"W; SP050872 (BCN Old and New Lines meet)
- Icknield Port: 52°28’52"N, 1°55’59"W; SP046870 (Canals and Rivers Trust maintenance depot)
- Feed in from Edgbaston (Rotton Park) Reservoir: 52°28’53"N, 1°55’59"W; SP045870
- Rotton Park Junction: 52°29’3"N, 1°55’45"W; SP048874 (BCN Old and New Lines cross)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hadfield, Charles. Canals of the West Midlands. Newton Abbott: David & Charles.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1234111: Rotton Park Loop canal maintenance depot yard (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1234112: Rotton Park Loop canal maintenance depot superintendant's office (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1234113: Rotton Park Loop canal maintenance depot workshops and stores (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1234114: Rotton Park Loop canal maintenance depot crane (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1276288: Rotton Park Loop canal maintenance depot stables (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Icknield Port Loop". Urbed. http://www.urbed.coop/projects/icknield-port-loop. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
- ↑ "Regeneration Plans for new canal district", Birmingham News (Birmingham, UK), p.1, 9 February 2012.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Icknield Port Loop) |
| The Birmingham Canal Navigations | ||
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BCN Main Line • Birmingham and Fazeley Canal • Bumble Hole Branch Canal • Cannock Extension Canal • Digbeth Branch Canal • Dudley Canal • Engine Arm • Gower Branch Canal • Icknield Port Loop • Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal • Rushall Canal • Soho Loop • Spon Lane Locks Branch • Tame Valley Canal • Titford Canal • Walsall Canal • Wednesbury Oak Loop • Wednesbury Old Canal • Wyrley and Essington Canal | |
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