A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DERBY CANAL, a canal in Derbyshire. It commences, at a railway to coal and lead mines, in Little Eaton chapelry, 3½ miles N of Derby; goes 8½ miles southward, past Derby, Alvaston, and Chellaston, to the Trent and Mersey canal at Swarkestone; and sends off a branch from Derby, eastward to the Erewash canal, near Sandiacre. It makes a descent of 29 feet, with 12 locks. It was formed in 1793-4.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a canal" (ADL Feature Type: "canals") |
| Administrative units: | Derbyshire AncC |
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