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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
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.
Canal Bridge at SK 481 367: 1779 A footbridge crossing the Erewash Canal, it has a single span, with stone walls at the ends, and a cast iron arch between. The arch is constructed from a grid of bolted beams, with a surface of tarmac, and there are iron handrails on the sides.
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 ...
The Erewash Canal passes through the area, and the listed buildings associated with it are two bridges and two locks. The other listed buildings include churches and a chapel, a church tower, houses, a museum, the town hall, two factories, a drinking fountain , a brick kiln, a library, cemetery buildings, two cinemas, a school, a railway ...
West Park is near the historic centre of Long Eaton on the opposite side of Erewash Canal, the area was used for Lace factories and part of the park is within The Lace Factory Conservation area. [3] It is an Edwardian park with Long Eaton Borough council purchasing the land that now comprises the park in seven parcels starting in 1882 and ...
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 ...
Additionally the Meadow Lane, South Erewash/Trent Station North, Sawley Junction and Platt's Crossing components were removed when those sections of line disappeared. Immediately to the south-west is Trent Lock , a four-way junction on the British canal system , linking the River Soar and Erewash Canal to the River Trent , and leading to the ...