The Hatherton Canal.

The Hatherton Canal is a derelict branch of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in south Staffordshire, England.

When it was built it ran 4 miles (6km) through eight locks from Hatherton Junction on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal to Churchbridge Junction on the Churchbridge Branch (a short branch with thirteen locks) of the Cannock Extension Canal (a branch of the Wyrley and Essington Canal). It was completed in 1860. Subsidence due to mining caused its closure in 1955.

The canal is now part of an active restoration project. However, due to building on the original cut, the current plans call for the canal to deviate from the original route, through new locks, to a new junction at Grove Basin on the Cannock Extension. This would incorporate new tunnels under the A5 road and a culvert, already in place, under the M6 Toll motorway.

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