This walk around the canals of central Birmingham, is approx. 9 miles long and starts from Farmers Bridge Junction by the Barclaycard Arena. The whole way is on hard track towpaths.
From Farmers Bridge Junction take the towpath towards Aston, keep following the towpath on the left of the canal under several bridges and past many locks, passing the Post Office Tower on the right until Aston Junction is reached. Here join the Birmingham & Fazeley canal by keeping straight on and ignoring the first footbridge and then crossing the second footbridge over the canal to the towpath now on the right of the canal.
Follow this towpath through Aston and Erdington to the Salford Junction, here it is important to keep close to the waters edge turning right and ignoring the two foot bridges which will lead to the towpath on the right of the Birmingham & Warwick Junction Canal. Continue to follow the towpath along this canal through Saltley to Bordesley Junction. At Bordesley Junction follow the path round to the right ignoring the footbridge on the left and continue along the Digbeth Branch Canal, when the next junction is reached follow the path to the right and go under a large railway bridge following this path past the Aston science park back to Aston Junction. Go over the bridge over the Birmingham & Fazeley canal and follow the path to the left to rejoin the path back to Farmers Bridge Junction.
See below for photos from the walk, and a map of the route.
Click the Learn more button above to open the map in Outdooractive from where you can download the route to the free Outdooractive app for Android or iOS, or export the route to a GPX file for use in other apps. A GPX file for this route can also be downloaded from here. For more about using Outdooractive, and a list of all our routes with GPS files, see: GPS Routes
