KETLEY CANAL

'Ketley Canal' was a tub boat canal that ran about 1½ miles from Oakengates to Ketley works. The canal was built about 1788 at the same time as the Wombridge Canal and featured the first inclined plane in Britain with a drop of 22¼ metres. The inclined plane was located near Ketley Hall. When Ketley works closed in 1816 the canal fell into disuse. The main cargo of the canal was coal and ironstone (a form of iron ore).
Little is left of the canal today.

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★ ''Lost canals of England and Wales'' Ronald Russell page 144 ISBN 0-7153-5417-5