🥾 Walking route
Clayhanger Common Walk
West Midlands
- 📏 5.7 km · 3.5 mi
- ⛰ +48 m
- ⏱ 1 hr 15 min
- 🐕 On lead
Walk stats
- Distance5.7 km · 3.5 mi
- Elevation+48 m
- Duration1 hr 15 min
- DifficultyEasy
- Route typeLinear
- TerrainLevel canal towpaths, surfaced paths and open common; minimal ascent
- Best seasonSpring to autumn for drier towpaths and common
- DogsDog-friendly; keep on lead near roads, canals and wildlife on the nature reserve
About this walk
This gentle linear route links Pelsall to Street's Corner via a string of canal towpaths, commons and Black Country landmarks. Setting off from Pelsall, the walk quickly picks up the Cannock Extension Canal before reaching The Fingerpost, where it joins the Wyrley & Essington Canal for a level, waterside stretch.
Passing The Swan, the route heads into Brownhills and its Civic Square, home to a striking miner statue that marks the town's coalfield heritage. From here you follow the Daw End Branch of the Wyrley & Essington Canal towards Clayhanger, before stepping onto Clayhanger Common at the local landmark known as "The Spot".
The final stretch crosses the open ground of the common, with glimpses of Moat Farm Pool, an old pit mound and the neighbouring Pelsall North Common Local Nature Reserve nearby. The walk finishes at Street's Corner, having taken in a quietly characterful slice of the West Midlands where industrial past and reclaimed nature sit side by side.
Route map
Route line drawn from OpenStreetMap footpath data. Numbered markers are waypoints on the route; amber star markers are points of interest a short detour away.
Waypoints along the route
9 waypoints along the way
- 1
Start: Pelsall
- Start
The start of the route.
- 2
Cannock Extension Canal
- 3
The Fingerpost
- 4
Wyrley & Essington Canal
- 5
The Swan
- 6
Brownhills Civic Square
- 7
Wyrley & Essington Canal (Daw End Branch)
- 8
Clayhanger Common "The Spot"
- 9
Finish: Street's Corner
- Finish
The end of the route.
Worth a short detour
Points of interest just off the route, look for the amber markers on the map.
Pit Mound
~297 m off the route
Finger post
~281 m off the route
Moat Farm Pool
~230 m off the route
Pelsall North Common Local Nature Reserve
~249 m off the route
Brownhills Miner Black Country Geosite
~283 m off the route
Route & waypoint data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).