Cromford Canal Embankment
CROMFORD CANAL EMBANKMENT, DROVERS WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109015
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cromford Canal Embankment
- Statutory Address:
- CROMFORD CANAL EMBANKMENT, DROVERS WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109015
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cromford Canal Embankment
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROMFORD CANAL EMBANKMENT, DROVERS WAY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CROMFORD CANAL EMBANKMENT, DROVERS WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Amber Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 35949 52300
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nixon, F, Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire, (1969), 232
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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