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.

* Dudley Tunnel, a canal tunnel

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 ).

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.

The case of R v Dudley and Stephens, in which two men were found guilty of murder for killing and eating a cabin boy while adrift at sea in a lifeboat, set the precedent that necessity is no defence to a charge of murder.

The case of R v. Dudley and Stephens ( 1884 ) 14 QBD 273 ( QB ) is an English case which dealt with four crew members of an English yacht, the Mignonette, who were cast away in a storm some from the Cape of Good Hope.

Other appearances include Sledge Hammer !, Boy Meets World, Hey Arnold !, The Single Guy ( where he is mistaken for Dudley Moore ), and Sabrina the Teenage Witch in which he sang " Daydream Believer " to Sabrina ( Melissa Joan Hart ).

Somerset, disliked by the Regency Council for his autocratic methods, was removed from power by John Dudley, who is known as Lord President Northumberland.

For example, the novel Ramage and the Rebels, by Dudley Pope is set in approximately 1800.

* Camp Dudley, the oldest continually running boys ' camp in America, is founded.

* July 24 – American Revolutionary War: American forces led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U. S. history until Pearl Harbor.

Dudley had rejected the school as not meeting Groves ’ criteria, but as soon as Groves saw it he said in effect This is the place.

* August 22 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, a supporter of Lady Jane Grey, is executed.

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet is a boys ' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Edward Underne, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I.

Elizabeth's coronation procession: Robert Dudley is on horseback on the far left, leading the palfrey of honour.

The ambassador of the neutral Republic of Venice, by his office the most detached of the foreign envoys, soon wrote home: " My Lord Robert Dudley is ... very intimate with Her Majesty.

He explained to her that he could not marry, not even in order to beget a Dudley heir, without his " utter overthrow ": You must think it is some marvellous cause ... that forceth me thus to be cause almost of the ruin of mine own house ... my brother you see long married and not like to have children, it resteth so now in myself ; and yet such occasions is there ... as if I should marry I am sure never to have Queen's favour ".

Robert Dudley in 1576, aged 44, as is stated in the margin.

The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of " The Stage to Lordsburg ", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Dudley Nichols of " The Stage to Lordsburg ," a short story by Ernest Haycox.

Additionally, he is one-third of the infrequent, live-only musical extravaganza the Three Terrors ensemble, whose other principal members include 69 Love Songs album's Dudley Klute and LD Beghtol ; past themes of these performances have included: French pop, movie themes ( including the title song from Deep Throat ), intoxication, and New York.

His plea is seemingly answered by a suave angel named Dudley ( Grant ), who reveals his identity initially only to the clergyman.

When Dudley spends time cheering up Julia, there is an unexpected development: Dudley finds himself strongly attracted to her.

* William C. Dudley ( born 1952 ), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee, he is also the husband of former Cranford Deputy Mayor Ann Darby

He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth, Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates, Martin Luther in Luther, Merlin in Camelot, and his portrayal of Mark Benford in the 2009 TV series FlashForward.

When Dudley's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, Elizabeth must decide if she really wants to marry ; and if so, is Dudley the right choice?

" Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex ( the stepson of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the son-in-law of Francis Walsingham ), is the people's champion.

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.