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Urban canal graffiti.

Birmingham, England

Urban canal graffiti.

Length5.4 mi
Elev. Gain223 ft
Est. Steps12000

Wild flowers

City walk

Quiet place

Muddy

Steep slope

Trail

Created by Jeremy
Introduction
Urban canal graffiti. is a 5.4 mile (12,000-step) route located near Birmingham, England. This route has an elevation gain of about 223 ft and is rated as medium. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
Enjoy the peaceful water of the canal, as you walk through Birmingham’s concrete scenery, plastered with graffiti. Great on a sunny day, but not to be attempted alone at night!!

Aston Junction

Tourist Attraction
Aston Junction (grid reference SP076881) is the name of the canal junction where the Digbeth Branch Canal terminates and meets the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal near to Aston, Birmingham, England.

Aston Reservoir

Water
Aston Reservoir, sometimes known as Salford Lake, Salford Park Pool or Salford Bridge Reservoir, is a 19th-century reservoir, formerly used for drinking water extracted from the River Tame, in Birmingham, England. It was built by the Birmingham Waterworks Company and was at that time situated in the parish of Aston.

Aston

Place
Aston is a ward of Inner Birmingham, England. Located immediately to the north-east of Central Birmingham, Aston constitutes a ward within the metropolitan authority.

1–7 Constitution Hill, Birmingham

Food
The former H.B. Sale factory (grid reference SP067876), at 1–7 Constitution Hill, Birmingham 19, England, at the acute junction with Hampton Street, is a Grade II listed building. The red brick and terracotta structure is extremely thin, with a tower at one end.

Gosta Green

Food
Gosta Green is an area in the city of Birmingham, England. It lies at the edge of the city centre, about three-quarters of a mile (or roughly 10–15 minutes' walk) to the north-east of Birmingham New Street station via Corporation St or the High St.

Aston University Engineering Academy

School
Aston University Engineering Academy is a university technical college (UTC) that opened in September 2012 in the Gosta Green area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. Aston University is the lead academic sponsor of the UTC, along with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network. Business partners of Aston University Engineering Academy include E.

Bishop's House, Birmingham

Place
The Bishop's House in Birmingham, England was designed by Augustus Pugin as the residence of Thomas Walsh, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham. It was situated opposite St Chad's Cathedral, on the corner of Bath Street and Weaman Street in Birmingham City Centre.A building of exceptional originality and adventurousness, it was Pugin's first attempt to adapt his gothic architectural style to form an urban architectural language, and it would become the most influential of all his architectural works.

Gravelly Hill Interchange

Place
Gravelly Hill Interchange, also known as Spaghetti Junction, is junction 6 of the M6 motorway where it meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway in the Gravelly Hill area of Birmingham, England. The interchange was opened on 24 May 1972.

St Chads tram stop

Place
St Chads tram stop is a tram stop on the city-centre extension of Line 1 of the West Midlands Metro in the United Kingdom, adjacent to Snow Hill railway station. It opened on 2 June 2016 as part of the extension into Birmingham city centre as a replacement for the previous Snow Hill terminus tram stop.

Aston railway station

Building
Aston railway station serves the districts of Aston and Nechells in Birmingham, England. The passenger entrance is on Lichfield Road. The station is on the Cross-City Line and the Chase Line.The station is situated adjacent to and above the Lichfield Road (A5127), crossed by a bridge as the railway line, part of the original Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837, is on an embankment through what was "pastoral parkland" at the time of its construction.
Route Details

Length

5.4 mi

Elev. Gain

223 ft

Est. Steps

12000
Created by
Jeremy
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