DUDLEY CANAL, a canal connected with Dudley in Worcester, and running mainly in Stafford and Warwick. It was cut in 1776-93; is 13 miles long; and sends off a branch of 2 miles toward Stourbridge. It begins in the Birmingham and Worcester canal, near Selby Oak; goes by Sappal, Halesowen, and the vicinity of Dudley, to Tipton Green; proceeds thence to the Birmingham canal; traverses three tunnels, respectively 3, 776, 623, and 2, 926 yards long; rises 31 feet, and falls 13. The branch toward Stourbridge goes from Dudley-Woodside to the Stourbridge canal; and falls 85 feet, with 9 locks.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))