The Nutbrook Canal Derbyshire
- The Nutbrook Canal Derbyshire
- Inland Waterways Histories series
- The Nutbrook Canal in Derbyshire, an independent branch from the Erewash Canal, was mainly a coal carrier built to serve ironworks at its foot and collieries at its head. The Act authorising the canal was passed in 1793 and the line was opened in 1796. Control was with the coal owners. It served its purpose well until the railways came, and then was preserved by its principal owner/customers for as long as possible to protect themselves from railway monopoly. Eventually it succumbed, however, its end hastened by progressively severe subsidence from the very mine workings it had been built to serve.
- Little has previously been published about the canal's long history, which makes a remarkable tale - not least for the series of lawsuits that punctuated the canal's life. This new volume in the Inland Waterways Histories series will interest canal historians, industrial archaeologists and local residents alike. Many of the physical remains of the Nutbrook Canal are likely to disappear shortly beneath the opencast coal mining that is planned along its course (1970)
- 159 pages, 1970, Case bound, 5¾" x 8¾"
- David & Charles Publications
- ISBN 0715353349
- New — Out of print
- Pre-Owned, Excellent, light shelf edge wear — £20.00
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