Ogley Junction, Brownhills

Name: Ogley Junction
Address: Brownhills, United Kingdom

#4 among attractions in Brownhills

Top attraction, Canal

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Ogley Junction, on the Staffordshire county border near Brownhills, West Midlands, England, is a historic canal junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal where the Anglesey Branch left the main line. ()

Coordinates: 52°39'6"N, 1°54'59"W

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Ogley Junction – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Letocetum, St Mary's Church, Aldridge Shopping Centre, Watling Street.

2.5 miE
Museum with Roman inn and bathhouse ruins
Letocetum, Lichfield
65 min walk • Letocetum is the ancient remains of a Roman settlement. It was an important military staging post and posting station near the junction of Watling Street, the Roman military road to north Wales, and Icknield Street.
3.3 miS
Church
St Mary's Church, Walsall
84 min walk • St. Mary's Church is the parish church of Aldridge, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England. It is operated by the Church of England. Records show that it was built before 1257. Other than the 14th-century tower, all the exterior walls were added or rebuilt between the years 1841–1853. A south vestry was added in 1975.
3.3 miS
52°36'15"N • 1°54'59"W
Aldridge Shopping Centre, Walsall
84 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
0.6 miNW
Archaeological site
Watling Street, Brownhills
15 min walk • Watling Street is a historic route in England that crosses the River Thames at London and which was used in Classical Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and throughout the Middle Ages.
3.8 miSW
Park
Goscote, Walsall
96 min walk • Goscote is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. The Goscote name dates back several centuries and as recently as the 1920s it was a largely rural area that had survived the recent Industrial Revolution which dramatically altered the face of the region.
1.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Forest of Mercia
34 min walk • The Forest of Mercia lies within the northernmost boundary of the more ancient and well-known Forest of Arden which covered the area when it formed part of the Kingdom of Mercia, and is one of twelve community forests established close to major towns and cities across England.
0.9 miSW
Canal
Catshill Junction, Brownhills
23 min walk • Catshill Junction is a canal junction at the northern limit of the Daw End Branch Canal where it meets the Wyrley and Essington Canal main line, near Brownhills, in West Midlands, England.
2.7 miS
Museum, Specialty museum
Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, Walsall
71 min walk • Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, also known as Aldridge Transport Museum, is an independent transport museum in Aldridge, Walsall, England. Until December 2011 the Museum occupied the former Birmingham Corporation Tramways Witton Tram Depot, in the Aston district of Birmingham, run by a registered charity.
2.8 miSW
Village, Church
Shelfield, Walsall
71 min walk • Shelfield is a suburban village in the borough of Walsall in the West Midlands conurbation. It is conjoined by the nearby villages of Walsall Wood and Rushall. The name Shelfield derives from the Anglo Saxon Skelfeld for sloping ground or field.
3.2 miS
Town, Area
Aldridge, Walsall
82 min walk • Aldridge is a town and former civil parish in the Walsall borough, West Midlands, England. It is historically a village that was part of Staffordshire until 1974. It is 3 miles from Brownhills, 5 miles north east of Walsall, 6 miles from Sutton Coldfield and 7 miles from Lichfield.
2.6 miNE
Canal
Lichfield Canal
67 min walk • The Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction at Brownhills on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of Lichfield, on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles.