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A View of the Erewash Canal above Eastwood Lock (Lock 1) at a place known locally as The Gudgeon. The Erewash Canal / ˈ ɛr ə w ɒ ʃ / ⓘ is a broad canal in Derbyshire, England. It runs just under 12 miles (19 km) and has 14 locks. The first lock at Langley Bridge is part of the Cromford Canal. The Erewash Canal as surveyed by J.Smith in 1776
The Erewash rises on the south side of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, close to a disused railway embankment to the south of Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station.It flows to the south-west, and is joined by another stream which rises in Portland Park and flows to the north-west, passsing under the railway line for Kirkby-in-Ashfield to Pye Bridge junction, where it joins the Erewash Valley ...
Trent Lock is the area of canal locks around the point where the River Soar (flowing northwards) meets the River Trent (at this point flowing east). Near this point two canals also meet the Trent - the Erewash Canal, coming south-east from Long Eaton, and the short Cranfleet Cut provides a route for boats heading downstream on the Trent, avoiding a weir.
The Cromford Canal ran 14.5 miles (23 km) from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton.Built by William Jessop with the assistance of Benjamin Outram, its alignment included four tunnels and 14 locks.
The proposed canal was intended to carry limestone, coal and iron ore from the Derwent and upper Erewash valleys and join the nearby Erewash Canal. The important features of this canal are the Derwent Viaduct, which was a single span viaduct carrying the canal over the River Derwent, and the Butterley Tunnel (formerly the Ripley Tunnel). In ...
The Nutbrook Canal was a canal in England which ran between Shipley, Derbyshire and the Erewash Canal, joining it near Trowell. It was built to serve collieries at Shipley and West Hallam, and was completed in 1796. Most of it was closed in 1895, although some remained in use until 1949.
The Oakham Canal, when it opened in 1802, was never a success financially, but generated extra traffic for the Melton Mowbray Navigation, with around half of the coal passing up the canal continuing on to Oakham, and agricultural produce passing down on its way to Leicester. The main wharves were at Melton Basin and Rearsby, although the ...
Langley Mill is at the junction of the Erewash Canal, the Cromford Canal, and the Nottingham Canal.. The village, part of the Aldercar and Langley Mill parish, is on the border of Nottinghamshire, and is conjoined to the village of Aldercar (to the north) and the town of Heanor (to the south-west).