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OK Agent, We are getting closer to finding where the coordinates are hidden, we will be one step closer to finding those coordinates., but sometimes it's better to look at things from further away, Agent Moose once told me that.

So from what we have learnt about the canal near Great Wyrley we have found a nearly identical passage with one difference, spot it and click it to continue.

Great Wyrley was once a mining village, The Great Wyrley Colliery — with metalworking (such as for nails, agricultural implements and horseshoes) in outlying areas. This would have been served by the Wyrley and Essington canal which passes nearby to the South near Bloxwich, The canal was built to allow transport of coal from coal mines near Wyrley, Essington and New Invention to Wolverhampton and Walsall, but also carried limestone and other goods.

There was a section of the original mainline from Sneyd to Wyrley Bank, later considered a branch, was opened in 1798, some 2.2 miles (3.6 kilometres) long with five locks; this was extended towards Great Wyrley in 1799, but the extension was disused by 1829. It was reopened and expanded to reach Great Wyrley and serve the mines there in 1857. When completed it was 3.5 miles (5.6 Kilometres) long, with major wharfs at Broad Lane, Landywood and Wyrley. This branch was abandoned in 1955, under the powers of the Act of Abandonment. You can however walk this canal from Bloxwich near Sneyd Reservoir up to Cheslyn Hay as its now Wyrley and Essington Local Nature Reserve, A corridor of wildlife, parts of the remains of the canal still exists in places.

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