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Cromford Canal (broad gauge, un-navigable)

 
 
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The Cromford Canal (broad gauge, un-navigable) is a broad canal and is part of the Cromford Canal and is made up of the Cromford Canal Pinxton Branch. It runs for 4 miles and ¾ furlongs through 14 locks from Butterley Tunnel (eastern entrance) (where it joins the Cromford Canal (narrow gauge, un-navigable)) to Langley Mill Boatyard Moorings (where it joins the Cromford Canal (broad gauge, navigable)).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

It has a junction with the Cromford Canal Pinxton Branch at Ironville Junction.

The broad gauge runs from Great Northern Basin (Langley Mill) to the eastern end of Butterley tunnel with fourteen broad locks.

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "no reason given"

Relevant publications — Waterway Maps:

Butterley Tunnel (eastern entrance)
Golden Valley Bridge ¾ furlongs 0 locks
Ironville Junction
Junction with Pinxton Branch
7 furlongs 0 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 1 7 furlongs 0 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 2 1 mile 1 lock
Cinder Bank Road Bridge 1 mile and ¼ furlongs 2 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 3 1 mile and ¾ furlongs 2 locks
Adelaide Walk Bridge 1 mile and ¾ furlongs 3 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 4 1 mile and 1½ furlongs 3 locks
Erewash Valley Line Railway Bridge 1 mile and 2 furlongs 4 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 5 1 mile and 2 furlongs 4 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 6 1 mile and 3 furlongs 5 locks
Codnor Park Lock No 7 1 mile and 3½ furlongs 6 locks
Portland Basin (Cromford Canal) 1 mile and 4½ furlongs 7 locks
Butterley Co Lock No 8 2 miles and ¾ furlongs 7 locks
Stoneyford Lane Lock No 9 2 miles and 4½ furlongs 8 locks
Boat Lane Bridge (Cromford Canal) 2 miles and 5¼ furlongs 9 locks
Stoneyford Deep Lock No 10 2 miles and 6¾ furlongs 9 locks
Stoneyford Shallow Lock No 11 2 miles and 7½ furlongs 10 locks
Erewash Aqueduct 3 miles and ½ furlongs 11 locks
Vicker's Lock No 12 3 miles and 3½ furlongs 11 locks
Stoney Lane Bridge (Cromford Canal) 3 miles and 4 furlongs 12 locks
A610 Bridge 3 miles and 7½ furlongs 12 locks
Beggarlee Staircase Locks 4 miles and ¼ furlongs 12 locks
Langley Mill Boatyard Moorings
Limit of Navigation
4 miles and ¾ furlongs 14 locks
 
 
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Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Cromford Canal

The Cromford Canal ran 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometres) from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton. Built by William Jessop with the assistance of Benjamin Outram, its alignment included four tunnels and 14 locks.

From Cromford it ran south following the 275-foot (84 m) contour line along the east side of the valley of the Derwent to Ambergate, where it turned eastwards along the Amber valley. It turned sharply to cross the valley, crossing the river and the Ambergate to Nottingham road, by means of an aqueduct at Bullbridge, before turning towards Ripley. From there the Butterley Tunnel took it through to the Erewash Valley.

From the tunnel it continued to Ironville, the junction for the branch to Pinxton, and then descended through fourteen locks to meet the Erewash Canal at Langley Mill. The Pinxton Branch became important as a route for Nottinghamshire coal, via the Erewash, to the River Trent and Leicester and was a terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway.

A 6-mile (9.7 km) long section of the Cromford canal between Cromford and Ambergate is listed as a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Local Nature Reserve.

In addition to purely canal traffic, there was a lively freight interchange with the Cromford and High Peak Railway, which traversed the plateau of the Peak District from Whaley Bridge in the north west, and which descended to the canal at High Peak Junction by means of an inclined plane.

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[Cromford and High Peak Railway] The Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) was a standard-gauge line between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at [Cromford Mill] Cromford Mill is the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill [Cromford] Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock. It is first mentioned [Derwent Valley Mills] housing, and structures associated with the mill communities. The Cromford Canal and Cromford and High Peak Railway, which aided the industrialisation of the [Erewash Canal] has 14 locks. The first lock at Langley Bridge is part of the Cromford Canal. The canal obtained its act of parliament in 1777 with John Varley appointed [High Peak Junction] Peak Railway (C&HPR), whose workshops were located here, meets the Cromford Canal. It lies within Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, designated [Peak District] The Cromford Canal, from Cromford to the Erewash Canal, served lead mines at Wirksworth and Sir Richard Arkwright's cotton mills. The Caldon Canal from [Nottingham Canal] the Cromford Canal. The committee called upon the services of the surveyor William Jessop, who had experience with the successful Cromford Canal. A possible [Butterley Tunnel] Butterley Tunnel is a 3,083-yard (2,819 m) disused canal tunnel on the Cromford Canal below Ripley, in Derbyshire, England, opened to traffic in 1794.
 
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