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Derby and Sandiacre Canal

 
 
Information about the waterway

The Derby and Sandiacre Canal is a broad canal and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain. It runs for 12 miles and 4 furlongs through 8 locks from Swarkestone Junction (where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Derwent Mouth to Burton)) to Sandiacre Junction (where it joins the Grand Union Canal (Erewash Canal)).

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.

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "under restoration"

Relevant publications — Waterway Maps:

Swarkestone Junction
Junction of the Derby and the Trent and Mersey Canals
Junction Bridge ½ furlongs 0 locks
A50 Road Culvert 2¼ furlongs 0 locks
Site of Cuttle Brook Aqueduct 5½ furlongs 0 locks
Baltimore Bridge 1 mile and 1¼ furlongs 0 locks
Site of Railway Bridge (Shelton Lock)
The defunct railway line from Derby to Chellaston, Melbourne and beyond crossed here.
1 mile and 2¼ furlongs 0 locks
Fullen’s Lock 1 mile and 3¼ furlongs 0 locks
Chellaston Road Bridge 1 mile and 5½ furlongs 1 lock
Shelton Lock 1 mile and 5½ furlongs 1 lock
Boulton Lane Bridge 2 miles and 2½ furlongs 2 locks
Brackens Lane Bridge 2 miles and 5¾ furlongs 2 locks
Harvey Road Bridge 2 miles and 6¾ furlongs 2 locks
Harvey Road Lock
Proposed
2 miles and 7 furlongs 2 locks
Parson’s Bridge 3 miles and 3 furlongs 3 locks
London Road Bridge (Wilmorton) 3 miles and 6 furlongs 3 locks
Pacific Way Bridge 3 miles and 7¾ furlongs 3 locks
A6 Railway Bridge 4 miles and 1¼ furlongs 3 locks
Derby Arm Lock
Proposed
4 miles and 3 furlongs 3 locks
River Derwent Aqueduct 4 miles and 4¼ furlongs 4 locks
Derby Arm Boat Lift
Proposed
4 miles and 4½ furlongs 4 locks
Raynesway Motorway Bridge 5 miles and 2¾ furlongs 4 locks
Station Road Bridge (Spondon) 6 miles 4 locks
Anglers Lane Bridge 6 miles and 3¼ furlongs 4 locks
Ullicker's Bridge
Restored
7 miles and ½ furlongs 4 locks
Borrowash Top Lock
Built in 1838
7 miles and 3¼ furlongs 4 locks
Station Road Bridge 7 miles and 3¾ furlongs 5 locks
Borrowash Bottom Lock 7 miles and 6¾ furlongs 5 locks
Ock Brook Aqueduct 7 miles and 7 furlongs 6 locks
Draycott Canal Cottages
Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Base
9 miles and 2½ furlongs 6 locks
Hopwell Road Bridge 9 miles and 2¾ furlongs 6 locks
The Navigation Inn (Breaston) 10 miles and 4½ furlongs 6 locks
Risley Lane Bridge 10 miles and 4½ furlongs 6 locks
Longmoor Lane Motorway Bridge 11 miles and 3¼ furlongs 6 locks
Bostocks Lane Bridge 11 miles and 4¾ furlongs 6 locks
Longmoor Lane Bridge
Built in 1925
12 miles and 1 furlong 6 locks
Sandiacre Top Lock 12 miles and 2¼ furlongs 6 locks
Site of Boat Inn (Sandiacre)
Destroyed by fire on 12th July 1940
12 miles and 3 furlongs 7 locks
Sandiacre Bottom Lock 12 miles and 3½ furlongs 7 locks
Lock Lane Bridge 12 miles and 3¾ furlongs 8 locks
Sandiacre Junction
Junction with the closed Derby Canal
12 miles and 4 furlongs 8 locks
 
 
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[Derby Canal] The Derby Canal ran 14 miles (23 km) from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to Derby and Little Eaton, and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre, in [Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust] The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust no. 1042227, registered 21 November 1994, and a registered company No. 2956417 [List of canals of the United Kingdom] Derby, Chester, Manchester, Blackburn, Bradford, Hartlepool and Newcastle. London to Portsmouth canal: Also known as the Grand Southern Canal, and proposed [Chesterfield Canal] United Kingdom List of canal locks in the United Kingdom Adelphi Canal Derby Canal Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Chesterfield Canal Trust The length of [Sandiacre] now-defunct Derby Canal. Situated next to the canal in the town centre is the Springfield Mill, built in 1888 as a lace mill and a reminder of Sandiacre's industrial [Borrowash] ockbrookborrowashtennisclub.info. Retrieved 29 January 2021. The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society website. Borrowash Area Community Website Community Website [Spondon] 1795, and enabled other industries. The canal closed in 1964. The Derby & Sandiacre Canal Trust continue in their efforts to reinstate the canal. Borrowash [Erewash Canal] roughly parallel to the River Erewash, past Sandiacre and Ilkeston, crossing the Erewash near Eastwood. The canal finally ends at the Langley Mill (Great [Derby railway station] canal network and the River Trent to Nottingham, meant that few people were willing to invest. Provision of coal supplies to Derby were via the Derby [Sawley, Derbyshire] Eaton, Sandiacre & Sawley, 1994, Keith Breakwell. ISBN 978-0-9521-4371-0 Powell, Julia (2019). Memories of Breaston, Draycott, Long Eaton and Sawley.
 
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