CROMFORD CANAL EMBANKMENT

List Entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Location

CROMFORD CANAL EMBANKMENT, DROVERS WAY

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Details

SK 35 SE RIPLEY DROVERS WAY, Bullbridge

3/80 Cromford Canal Embankment

GV II

Canal embankment. 1793 by William Jessop and Benjamin Outram. Coursed squared stone. Approximately 100 feet long and 40 feet high. Stone retaining walls with plain band near the base of the walls and rounded rubble copings. Central barrel vaulted tunnel through the embankment with rubble arches and buttress-like jambs to the entrances. Southern end of the embankment truncated during road widening operations in 1970s. F Nixon, Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire Pg 232.

Listing NGR: SK3592752335

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Nixon, F, Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire, (1969), 232

National Grid Reference: SK 35949 52300

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