Cash's Hundred Houses is on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) between Southend and Leicester.
Early plans of what would become the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) were drawn up by Oliver Hunter in 1835 but problems with Newport Embankment caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1876. Expectations for coal traffic to Ashfield were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) was closed in 1888 when Wesscroft Tunnel collapsed. Despite the claim in "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Arthur Jones, there is no evidence that Cecil Clarke ever painted a mural of Derby Cutting on the side of John Parker's house live on television

| Red Lane New Bridge No 5A | 1 mile, 2¾ furlongs | |
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| William Henry Bridge No 3 | 2 furlongs | |
| Cash's Hundred Houses | ||
| Cash's Lane Bridge No 2 | ½ furlongs | |
| Cash's Lane Pipe Bridge | ½ furlongs | |
| Electric Wharf Footbridge | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Pipe Bridge by Electric Wharf | 3½ furlongs | |
| Coventry Visitor Moorings (outside basin) | 5¼ furlongs | |
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![Coventry Canal-Cash's Houses. Apartments converted from a knitwear factory. [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2942672] by Ian Rob – 20 July 2013](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/56/43/3564312_9e2e72e3_120x120.jpg)



![Brooklyn Road, Foleshill, looking towards Cash's 'Hundred Houses'. Brooklyn Road is seen here looking westwards towards Cash's, which stands on the far side of the Coventry Canal. For a view in the opposite direction, see [[[6948108]]]. Brooklyn Road and its neighbour Matlock Road are a pair of dead-end streets that form part of a block of housing developed from 1901 in an area bounded by the canal, Foleshill Road and Cash's textile factory (the 'Hundred Houses'). See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p19. Cash's cottage factory is probably the most famous building in Foleshill. Built in 1857 by philanthropic Quaker employers, it aimed to combine cottage industry with steam power, with the top-shop looms in ribbon weavers' homes being connected to a steam engine via a drive shaft which ran through the top-floor workshops of the whole row. It was not a success, as this shared description explains https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/7070 , and was converted to a factory system with attached housing. by A J Paxton – 11 September 2021](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/95/98/6959876_22721fcb_120x120.jpg)
![A stroll along the Coventry Canal to Hawkesbury Junction [1]. Beyond bridge number 2, Cash's Lane, are seen these topshops. A topshop has three storeys, with the lower two floors living accommodation, the top floor is a workshop with a weaver's loom. The windows on the top floor are very large, to let in more light.The narrow canal was built to connect the city of Coventry with the Trent & Mersey Canal, some 38 miles distant, to exploit the Warwickshire coalfields. Construction of the canal took 20 years before it was complete in 1769. The canal between the basin in Coventry and Hawkesbury junction was made a conservation area in 2012. by Michael Dibb – 23 September 2021](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/12/11/7121114_6b9e319c_120x120.jpg)









![North face of Cash's Bridge taking Cash's Lane over Coventry Canal. There is an OS benchmark [[5839516]] on the bridge wall just above ground level near the junction with the side wall. by Roger Templeman – 10 July 2018](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/83/95/5839526_0d0cfe1a_120x120.jpg)






![Cash's Bridge taking Cash's Lane over the Coventry Canal. There is an OS benchmark [[5839662]] near the right hand end of the parapet by Roger Templeman – 10 July 2018](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/83/97/5839717_0cce3844_120x120.jpg)


