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The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 31-mile (50 km) long canal in England which connected the mining district around Moira, just outside the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth in Warwickshire. It was opened in 1804, and a number of tramways were constructed at its northern end, to service collieries.
Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. Built by the Earl of Moira in 1804, the building has been preserved by North West Leicestershire District Council as a museum featuring lime kilns and craft workshops.
The Ashby Canal Trust is a waterway society based at Measham, Swadlincote, Leicestershire, England, UK, and concerned with the restoration of a part of the Ashby Canal, also known as the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. The restoration project is funded by: Leicestershire County Council; Ashby Canal Association; Ashby Canal Trust and Ashby Canal Trust ...
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Moira lime kilns. Moira Furnace is a restored 19th-century blast furnace. A 1.5-mile (2.4 km) section of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal adjacent to the furnace has also been restored and rewatered, although it lacks a navigable link to the rest of the system due to the A42 road having been built across its line.
Ashby Canal near Congerstone Moira Furnace, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. The Ashby Canal Association (ACA) is a waterway society and a registered charity, [1] in Leicestershire and Staffordshire, England, concerned with the Ashby Canal, and affiliated to the Inland Waterways Association. The Association was founded in 1966 in response to the ...
System map of the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway and the Charnwood Forest Railway. The area surrounding the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch was an important mineral-rich district producing coal, clay and high-quality stone. Heavy minerals were expensive to transport to market by animal power, and when canals became available, costs reduced ...
A few miles north of Hawkesbury, just outside Bedworth, is Marston Junction, where the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal starts its meandering, rural and lock-free journey towards the former coal mines at Moira; although it is now navigable only for 22 miles (35 km) to Snarestone.