He left the construction of the canal shortly before completion to work on Dudley Tunnel.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, coal and limestone were worked only on a modest scale for local consumption, but during the Industrial Revolution by the opening of canals, such as the Birmingham Canal Navigations, Stourbridge Canal and the Dudley Canal ( the Dudley Canal Line No 1 and the Dudley Tunnel ) opened up the mineral wealth of the area to exploitation.

View southward, towards Dudley Tunnel and Stourbridge Junction in 1951.

Visitors to the museum may also take a narrowboat trip on the adjacent Dudley Canal, into the Dudley Tunnel.

The Dudley Tunnel runs beneath Castle Hill, but not the castle itself.

** Dudley Canal Line No 1 ( see also Dudley Tunnel )

** Dudley Canal Line No 2 ( about half dewatered ; see also Lapal Tunnel ; Netherton Reservoir )

The Dudley Canal Line No 2 was built through the Lapal Tunnel to meet the canal at Selly Oak in 1798.

He was engineer and surveyor on the Dudley Canal until 1783, and consulted by them later when they were extending through Dudley Tunnel.

At 3, 076 yards ( 2, 813m ) long it is the third-longest navigable canal tunnel on the UK canal network after Standedge Tunnel and Dudley Tunnel ( and the ninth-longest canal tunnel in the world ).

Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Dudley Canal Line No 1, England.

However, since the Dudley Tunnel is not continuous this status is sometimes questioned: ( the main tunnel is, Lord Ward's tunnel is and Castle Mill basin is ).

The tunnel was reopened in 1973, as a result of restoration, which had been a collaboration between local volunteers ( originally the Dudley Canal Tunnel Preservation Society, later the Dudley Canal Trust ), and the local authority, Dudley Borough Council.

The Dudley Canal Line No. 1 and Dudley Tunnel were reported as finished on 25 June 1791.

He was also working on the Dudley Canal's extension, and another four canal schemes at the same time, and was the first great tunnel engineer.

Mandurah also has a number of suburbs built around artificially created canal systems that extend from the Peel Inlet, such as Halls Head, Dudley Park and Wannanup.

This is the most recent canal tunnel to be built in the UK since canal excavation in Dudley, West Midlands.

The scheme includes a new canal aqueduct to carry the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and a new railway bridge on the Cross-City Line, and allowance has been made for the reopening of a small part of the Selly Oak to Lapal and Halesowen canal ( Dudley No. 2 Canal ) to enhance the area and provide a focal point.

A private Act of Parliament to construct the tunnel and associated canal, later to be known as the Dudley Canal Line No. 1, was passed in 1776.

However Lord Dudley and Ward started building a canal and tunnel, in 1775, to link his Tipton Colliery and his lime works to the Birmingham Canal Navigations, at Tipton, on the 473 ft Wolverhampton Level.

He later agreed to sell the canal and tunnel to the Dudley Canal Company.

The workings were originally connected by underground canal to the Dudley Tunnel complex, which has now been blocked off for safety reasons.

The former limestone mine and adjacent vast underground canal basin, which leads to a now blocked off passage to Dudley Tunnel, contain some of what local historians claimed to be some of the world's most important geology and mining heritage.

This section of the Monarch's Way follows the canal system through the heart of the Black Country using Walsall Canal, Wednesbury Old Canal, Netherton Tunnel and Dudley Canal to Halesowen.

Netherton Reservoir-otherwise known as Lodge Farm Reservoir-is a canal feeder reservoir in the Netherton district of Dudley, England.

They sold it to Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council in 1966, who wanted to improve the leisure facilities within their area, and have since developed it for watersports, although it still supplies water to the canal.

The Dudley Canal extension through the Lappal tunnel was opened in early 1798, and with progress being made on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, the Company obtained a third act of Parliament on 21 June 1799, which allowed it to raise more money, and included a diversion of the route further to the east near Lapworth, so that the length of the connecting link to the Warwick and Birmingham was only about.

While in London he stayed at the palace of Lord Dudley, on Arlington Street where he entertained his new friends ; he was received by the ministers, ambassadors and municipal officials of King George IV, and was generally feted by English nobility, attending concerts and pheasant hunts, and visiting public works ( such as the Tamisa tunnel which was then under construction and, ironically, collapsed after his visit ).

There are many canals in and around Dudley, the main one being the Dudley Canal-most of which passes beneath Dudley in a tunnel which lacks a towpath and is therefore accessible only by boat.

Dudley Ward Way is a road tunnel through the south-eastern part of the Rock of Gibraltar.

To commemorate Brian Navarro, who was killed following a rockfall at the approach road to the tunnel, a plaque was placed at the site and the section of road, from the Admiralty Tunnel entrance in Sandy Bay to Dudley Ward Way's northern

Part of the Seven Sisters tunnel complex ; This cave is in Castle Hill, just behind Dudley Castle.

At the top of this flight is the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum followed shortly by Blisworth Tunnel, at 3056 yards ( 2794 m ) one of the longest on the canal network.

A few miles further on the canal passes through the 2040-yard ( 1865-m ) Braunston Tunnel, which pierces a low range of hills that are part of the Northamptonshire uplands.

Three miles ( 5 km ) from Hatton Top Lock the canal passes through Shrewley Tunnel, with its separate horse tunnel, and then passes Rowington village to Kingswood Junction where a short spur connects with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

At the time of opening it was the longest railway tunnel in the world, though the Standedge Tunnel and several other canal tunnels were longer.

Freeman Thomas built a railroad from his Grand Tunnel mine to a chutehouse along the river near the entrance to the canal.

The restoration will involve restoring the six places where the canal is culverted ( including the three places where the M6 Motorway construction blocked the route ), restoring Hincaster Tunnel, restoring the 5 dry miles, and a new crossing of the A590 road near Kendal, as well as many more minor works including work on 52 listed structures.

It includes Sapperton Tunnel, which when built was the longest canal tunnel in Britain, and remains the third longest.

In a further attempt to prevent water loss, at King's Reach, the section immediately east of Sapperton Tunnel, the canal was lined with concrete rather than puddle clay.

On the Cheshire stretch of the canal, between Middlewich and the northern end of the canal in Preston Brook Tunnel, is the Victorian Anderton Boat Lift, which lowers boats fifty feet from the T & M to the River Weaver.

The northern end of the canal makes an end-on junction with the Bridgewater Canal within Preston Brook Tunnel, from which one can access Runcorn ( but no longer the Mersey or Ship Canal ) in one direction and Manchester ( with its many canal links ) in the other direction.

After the long ( 40 minute ) Harecastle Tunnel ( one way, alternating roughly every two hours ), the canal emerges in the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent, and is soon in the middle of the city and then at Etruria, and the junction with the Caldon Canal.

From Runcorn, the canal would climb by a series of thirty-five locks, pass through a three thousand yard long tunnel ( the Harecastle Tunnel ), then descend by a further forty locks to join the Trent at Wilden Ferry, near Shardlow.

The canal also extends through the Paw Paw Tunnel.

One of the most impressive engineering features of the canal is the Paw Paw Tunnel, which runs for under a mountain.

At the time of construction, Norwood Tunnel was the joint longest canal tunnel in Britain, and it was sixth longest by the time it collapsed.

However, the building of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line parallel to the canal ( 1849 ) left much of the navigation redundant, and the Worksop to Chesterfield stretch ceased to serve commercial traffic in 1908, when problems with mining subsidence necessitated the closure of Norwood Tunnel.

Norwood Tunnel was a, and, brick-lined ( 3 million of them ) canal tunnel on the line of the Chesterfield Canal with its Western Portal in Norwood, Derbyshire and its Eastern Portal in Kiveton, South Yorkshire.

However, in practice progress was slow, and attention turned to the section west of Norwood Tunnel, where much more damage had been done to the canal bed, with it being filled in and built over in many places.

In 2003, the Worksop to Norwood Tunnel stretch of the canal was reopened, with 30 restored locks, one new lock and three new bridges.

The canal winds through the northern part of Rugby passing through the long Newbold Tunnel, and then reaches a set of three locks at Hillmorton just east of Rugby.

The design of the Canal included the first canal passage ever built through a tunnel ( the Malpas Tunnel ).

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, part of England's National Waterways Museum, is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire.