A six hundred yard stretch of the Staffs & Worcs canal passes through a cutting quarried out of the hard Bromsgrove (Keuper) sandstone. To minimise the work, the cut is only wide enough for a single boat, except at a couple of passing places.
The higher cut on the bank opposite the towpath shows a distinct layering in the types of vegetation which manage to cling on to the small cliff face the cut has created.
