Boat Inn PH (Pinxton) 
Boat Inn PH (Pinxton) is on the Cromford Canal Pinxton Branch.
The Act of Parliament for the Cromford Canal Pinxton Branch was passed on 17 September 1782 despite strong opposition from Nicholas Thomas who owned land in the area. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Bath to Northcroft canal at Rhondda, the difficulty of tunneling through the Manchester Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Oxford instead. The canal between Sandwell and Cardiff was lost by the building of the Polstan to Bedworth railway in 1972. "Travels of The Implacable" by Arthur Jones describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Poole Embankment.

| Pinxton Wharf | 1 furlong | |
| Boat Inn PH (Pinxton) | ||
| Railway Bridge No 9 (Cromford Canal) | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Pye Bridge No 8 | 1 mile, 1¼ furlongs | |
| Fletcher's Row Bridge No 5 | 1 mile, 5¼ furlongs | |
| Railway Bridge No 4 (Cromford Canal) | 1 mile, 5¾ furlongs | |
| Ironville Bridge | 1 mile, 6¾ furlongs | |
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![Pinxton Arm of the Cromford Canal, looking west. Before the railways, this canal was the main freight route in and out of this area. In the 1830s canal boats took coal from Pinxton to Nottingham, the River Trent, Hickling, Leicester, Gunthorpe, Newark and Bridgford, as well as 'goods' to Leicester and Wolverhampton. They brought to Pinxton cargoes as diverse as bones from Nottingham, corn from the Trent and 'goods' from Birmingham, Derby, London, Shardlow and Nottingham. [Volunteers at the Friends of the Cromford Canal are creating a database from the original toll receipts.] by Christine Johnstone – 19 August 2017](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/50/58/5505876_f1f588e6_120x120.jpg)
![Rushes in the Pinxton Arm, near the Boat Inn. Before the railways, this canal was the main freight route in and out of this area. In the 1830s canal boats took coal from Pinxton to Nottingham, the River Trent, Hickling, Leicester, Gunthorpe, Newark and Bridgford, as well as 'goods' to Leicester and Wolverhampton. They brought to Pinxton cargoes as diverse as bones from Nottingham, corn from the Trent and 'goods' from Birmingham, Derby, London, Shardlow and Nottingham. [Volunteers at the Friends of the Cromford Canal are creating a database from the original toll receipts.] by Christine Johnstone – 19 August 2017](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/50/58/5505885_f9559727_120x120.jpg)
![Pinxton Arm, looking east to Pinxton Wharf. Before the railways, this canal was the main freight route in and out of this area. In the 1830s canal boats took coal from Pinxton to Nottingham, the River Trent, Hickling, Leicester, Gunthorpe, Newark and Bridgford, as well as 'goods' to Leicester and Wolverhampton. They brought to Pinxton cargoes as diverse as bones from Nottingham, corn from the Trent and 'goods' from Birmingham, Derby, London, Shardlow and Nottingham. [Volunteers at the Friends of the Cromford Canal are creating a database from the original toll receipts.] by Christine Johnstone – 19 August 2017](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/50/58/5505879_2504c2f8_120x120.jpg)









![The Pinxton Arm, between Pinxton and Sleights wharves. Before the railways, this canal was the main freight route in and out of this area. In the 1830s canal boats took coal from Pinxton to Nottingham, the River Trent, Hickling, Leicester, Gunthorpe, Newark and Bridgford, as well as 'goods' to Leicester and Wolverhampton. They brought to Pinxton cargoes as diverse as bones from Nottingham, corn from the Trent and 'goods' from Birmingham, Derby, London, Shardlow and Nottingham. [Volunteers at the Friends of the Cromford Canal are creating a database from the original toll receipts.] by Christine Johnstone – 19 August 2017](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/50/58/5505891_55aee69f_120x120.jpg)


![Pinxton - Sleights East Signal Box. A Midland Railway signal box erected in 1892. It closed in June 2007, when the line was resignalled, and was subsequently moved to the nearby car dismantlers yard. It was then bought and moved in early 2008 by the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway in Yorkshire to their Bolton Abbey station. It is being restored to allow the public to see how manual signal boxes worked - see [[4200526]]. by Dave Bevis – 01 May 1984](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/27/84/1278454_7b6383a6_120x120.jpg)









