SJ9003 : Marsh Lane in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton

taken 14 days ago, near to Oxley, Wolverhampton, England

Marsh Lane in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton
Marsh Lane in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton
Looking north towards the canal bridge, with Patshull Avenue leading off to the right.
Looking north-west towards Patshull Avenue.
Marsh Lane (and Pendeford Lane) used to link Stafford Road at the Three Tuns junction with Lane Green west of Pendeford Bridge on the Shropshire Union Canal. Total urbanisation of both sides of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal in the 1960s and 1970s, and later, resulted in the Fordhouses and Pendeford housing estates, and the eventual closing of Marsh Lane Bridge (S & W Canal) to road traffic. Pendeford Lane west of the bridge was downgraded to a bridleway for nearly half a mile. Can a local historian let us know a date when the bridge was closed?
Past the bridge, the route crosses The Droveway and continues, still as a bridleway, eventually becoming Pendeford Lane again by the football pitches, as far as Wobaston Road, which in turn carries on westwards along the original Pendeford Lane course to cross the Shropshire Union Canal over a modern Pendeford Bridge.

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SJ9003, 190 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Roger D Kidd   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 27 November, 2024   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 1 December, 2024
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 9066 0309 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:37.5293N 2:8.3648W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 9069 0302
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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