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The first civic system of piped water in England was established in Derby in 1692, using wooden pipes, ... Derby City Council became a unitary authority, ...
Much of the river's route, with the exception of the city of Derby, is rural. However, the river has also seen many human uses, and between Matlock and Derby was one of the cradles of the Industrial Revolution. It is the site of the Derwent Valley Mills, the first industrial-scale cotton mills. Today it provides a water supply to several ...
Some time between 1685 and 1687 Sorocold was involved with the water supply to Macclesfield and in 1687, he took on the job of rehanging the bells in All Saints Church, now Derby Cathedral. In 1692, he constructed the town's first waterworks , [ 2 ] using a waterwheel to pump through some four miles of pipe made of elm trunks.
The Markeaton Brook is an 11-mile-long (17 km) tributary of the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England.The brook rises from its source south of Hulland Ward, and flows for most of its length through the countryside north-west of Derby before entering a culvert to the north of the city centre; it reappears from this culvert and runs through a short section of open channel on the other side of the ...
The Derwent Valley Water Board was constituted by the Derwent Valley Water Act 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. cclxix) to supply the cities of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and the county of Derbyshire, with water impounded by a series of reservoirs along the upper reaches of the River Derwent in the Peak District of Derbyshire.
The first civic system of piped water in England was established in Derby in 1692, using wooden pipes, [109] which was common for several centuries. [110] The Derby Waterworks included waterwheel-powered pumps for raising water out of the River Derwent and storage tanks for distribution. [111]
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Longbridge Weir Hydro Power House is the name given to a hydro-electric dam built on the River Derwent in the City of Derby. The project was completed by Derwent Hydro [1] in 2013 at a cost of £1.7 million. The station primarily exists to power the city councils offices, however, surplus energy is sold back to the National Grid. [2]