The river Tame is one of the few natural water courses in the Birmingham conurbation. The (rather grandiose) river Rea being the only one that passes through the city centre though most people would be hard to find that - it is not much more than a brook until it converges the Tame near Lichfield.
Having researched a planning issue with my daughter, we noted the source of the Tame as in Oldbury and only few miles from home. According to Wikipedi, it was under a section of the elevated of M5 but on further inspection, there was already a significant water flow there from a subterranean culvert
This seemed to emminate from the other side of the M5 and having checked the OS map, Hurst Green park looks good. It was very muddy but a significant amount of water had been diverted under the M5 and the canals and feeder system. The source was very muddy so thankful I was on the MTN today.
I tried to follow the river downstream but it is subterranean for lengthy periods and undercuts the canals too . I rejoined the canals on the Birmingham mainline and then joined the Birmingham and Worcester home. 35k in all.
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