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He is remembered in [[Birmingham]] by Brindley Drive (on the site of former canal yards), the [[Brindley PlaceBrindleyplace]] mixed-use development and a pub, ''The James Brindley'' (both being canal-side features), and the James Brindley School for children in Birmingham's hospitals; in Leek with the James Brindley Mill; and by numerous other streets in the areas in which he worked. Within the grounds of James Brindley Primary School at Parr Fold Avenue, [[Walkden]], is a wooden [[barge]] once used for the transportation of coal from local mines. There is a statue of him (leaning over his desk) by James Walter Butler (bronze, 18 September 1998) located in the canal basin by Leicester Row, [[Coventry]], and another by Colin Melbourne (bronze, 20 July 1990) in Lower Bedford Street, [[Etruria, Staffordshire|Etruria]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]], at the junction of the [[Trent and Mersey Canal]] with the [[Caldon Canal]], opposite [[Etruria Industrial Museum]]. He is commemorated in Runcorn by the [[The Brindley|Brindley Arts Centre]], which opened in the autumn of 2004. There is also [[James Brindley Science College]] (previously James Brindley High School) in [[Chell, Staffordshire|Chell]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]], and also, the Brindley's Lock pub on Silverstone Crescent, Stoke-on-Trent.
 
The well in the village of [[Wormhill]] is dedicated to Brindley.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hargate-hall.co.uk/brindley.php |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325134805/http://www.hargate-hall.co.uk/brindley.php |archivedate=25 March 2016 |url-status=dead |title=Wormhill Well – The Brindley Memorial |accessdate=20 October 2009}}</ref> Wormhill is in the same Parish as Tunstead where he was born.