19-704: Tame Valley may refer to: Tame Valley Canal , a canal in the English Midlands Tame Valley Junction , junction where the Tame Valley Canal meets the Walsall Canal Tame Valley, geographical area surrounding the River Tame, West Midlands , between Birmingham and Tamworth Tame Valley Industrial Estate, Tamworth See also [ edit ] Teme Valley Topics referred to by
38-505: A tributary of the Tame that rises near Barr Beacon . From there, the canal passes under the M6, and then down the remaining Perry Barr locks. Between locks nine and ten is the site of Perry Barr Wharf, extant in the 1950s but now filled in. The canal passes under the M6 twice more, including Gravelly Hill Interchange (Spaghetti Junction), shortly after which it terminates, at Salford Junction. The canal
57-790: Is a major road in England . It runs from the A33 and M3 at Winchester in Hampshire , to the A6 and A6042 in Salford , close to Manchester City Centre. It forms a large part of the major trunk route from Southampton , via Oxford , to Birmingham , The Potteries and Manchester . For most of its length (together with the A5011 and parts of the A50 , and A49 ), it forms part of the former Winchester–Preston Trunk Road . Improvements to
76-682: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tame Valley Canal The Tame Valley Canal is a relatively late (1844) canal in the West Midlands of England . It forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations . It takes its name from the roughly-parallel River Tame . The canal runs from Tame Valley Junction where it joins the Walsall Canal near Ocker Hill and Toll End , and terminates at Salford Junction where it meets
95-514: The A34 . The original lock keepers cottages remain. Between locks 1 (the top lock) and 2 the canal is crossed by the Grade II listed Perry Barr Locks Bridge, a cast-iron foot bridge with brick pillars, dating from 1844. In the adjacent Perry Park , after lock 7 and near Alexander Stadium , is Perry Reservoir , a 27,300 m (35,700 cu yd) feeder reservoir completed in 1880 and fed by Holbrook,
114-697: The A43 (which had originally followed the route of the present B430) and A421 . Much of the long-distance traffic formerly carried by the present A3400 now uses the M40 to Birmingham, and the M42 and M6 to by-pass the city. When the Newbury Bypass was opened in 1998, the old route through Newbury became part of the A339 and the B4640. The long planned and often postponed Alderley Edge bypass
133-633: The Birmingham & Fazeley Canal and the Grand Union Canal . It is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long and has twin towpaths throughout. Between Tame Valley Junction and Rushall Junction it goes under the West Midlands Metro near Wednesbury and crosses over the former Grand Junction Railway (now part of the Chase Line ) by aqueduct , near Tame Bridge Parkway railway station (an unusual case of
152-707: The Oxford Ring Road was completed to the west of Oxford in 1962, the old route through the city was renumbered the A4144 . On completion of the Abingdon Bypass in the 1970s, the old route from the Oxford Ring Road through Abingdon and Steventon to Chilton was partly declassified (for 5 miles (8.0 km)) and the rest renumbered A4183, B4017, A4130 and A4185. In 1987, the A34 between Walsall and Bloxwich swapped routes with
171-494: The A34 was Winchester to Oxford, much shorter than it is today. It was extended to Manchester on 1 April 1935, replacing part of the A42 (Oxford to Birmingham through Shipston-on-Stour , Stratford-upon-Avon and Henley-in-Arden ), A455 (Birmingham to Stafford), part of the A449 (Stafford to Newcastle-under-Lyme) and A526 (Newcastle to Manchester). By 1953 the route was as follows: When
190-509: The M40, the A34 forms an important route carrying freight from Southampton to the Midlands . Because of the volume of traffic, bypasses were built along this route – at Newbury on the A34, and at Twyford Down near Winchester on the M3 – but these were controversial for environmental reasons. Notably instead of cutting a short road tunnel through Twyford Down, the escarpment was carved out for
209-528: The latter over the Old Walsall Road), and a deep cutting in 200-million-year-old sandstone, under Freeth Bridge (now restricted to pedestrians and bikes only) at Tower Hill . There are no locks on this section, which is at the Walsall Level , but it passes over eight aqueducts within five miles (seven of which are original). The thirteen Perry Barr Locks, where the level drops 106 feet, start just beyond
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#1732844281712228-663: The northern section, at junction 9 of the M40 motorway . It continues south as the western part of the Oxford Ring Road , crossing the River Thames on the A34 Road Bridge . It then bypasses Abingdon , Didcot , and Newbury before finishing at junction 9 of the M3 motorway . This part of the A34 forms the E05 European route. It is a dual carriageway throughout. Together with parts of the M3 and
247-414: The parallel B4210. In 1991, shortly after the completion of the M40 motorway, the road between Oxford and Solihull was renumbered. Between Chipping Norton and Solihull the road lost its primary route status and was renumbered A3400 , and south of Chipping Norton the route became part of an extended A44 . The A34 was diverted north from the Oxford Ring Road to the M40 along parts of the former routes of
266-673: The railway pre-dating a neighbouring canal). It passes over the M5 motorway near the interchange with the M6 motorway (M6 junction 8) and joins the Rushall Canal at Rushall Junction , inside the triangle formed by the motorway junction. East of Rushall Junction the canal passes under another arm of the M5. At Hamstead the remains of a wharf can be seen, This served the former Hamstead Colliery . Further east, there are two more aqueducts (Spouthouse Lane and Piercy,
285-530: The road traffic of the motorway, though the route of the old A33 closed as a result. In 2004, the junction with the M4 motorway was re-engineered from a roundabout to free-flowing grade separated junction . The idea that the cancelled Oxford–Cambridge Expressway (linking the current A34 near Oxford to the A14 near Cambridge) would have been designated as A34, did not have any official status. The original (1922) route of
304-418: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tame Valley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tame_Valley&oldid=772480339 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
323-463: The section of road forming the Newbury Bypass around Newbury were the scene of significant direct action environmental protests in the 1990s. It is 151 miles (243 km) long. The road is in two sections. The northern section runs south through Manchester and Cheadle , and bypasses Handforth , Wilmslow and Alderley Edge , before passing through Congleton , Newcastle-under-Lyme , and
342-498: The southern suburbs of Stoke-on-Trent . It then continues south via Stone , Stafford , Cannock and Walsall , passes through the middle of Birmingham (where it briefly merges with the A41 ), before meeting the M42 motorway at junction 4 south of Solihull . The northern section of the road in effect combines with the motorway network and then resumes with the southern section. The southern section begins 45 miles (72 km) SSE of
361-1073: Was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1839 and built by the Birmingham Canal Navigations . Construction started in 1841 and it opened on Wednesday 14 February 1844. Its engineers were James Walker and Alfred Burges the company engineers. The resident engineer was Mr. Horne, the contractors were Treadwell, Jackson and Bean for the principal part of the works, and Mr. Townshend for the portion near Tipton. Download coordinates as: 52°32′38″N 1°56′54″W / 52.5438°N 1.94832°W / 52.5438; -1.94832 A34 road (England) [REDACTED] A303 [REDACTED] M4 [REDACTED] A44 ( [REDACTED] A40 ) [REDACTED] M40 [REDACTED] A41 [REDACTED] M42 [REDACTED] A41 [REDACTED] M6 [REDACTED] A5 [REDACTED] M6 Toll [REDACTED] A51 [REDACTED] A500 [REDACTED] A53 [REDACTED] A54 [REDACTED] M56 [REDACTED] M60 [REDACTED] A57(M) [REDACTED] A56 The A34
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