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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Derwent Valley Mills' has mentioned 'Canal' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 Location and coverage 2 History 3 Transport 3.1 Cromford canal 3.2 Cromford and High Peak Railway 4 Legacy 5 Preservation 5.1 Museums 6 See also 7 References 8 External links | WIKI |
| The Cromford Canal and Cromford and High Peak Railway, which aided the industrialisation of the area, are also part of the World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| Cromford canal[edit] | WIKI |
| Main article: Cromford Canal | WIKI |
| Cromford Wharf, the terminus of the Cromford Canal | WIKI |
| The Erewash Canal, begun in 1777, was intended to primarily transport coal. | WIKI |
| In 1788, Richard Arkwright asked William Jessop to estimate the cost of building a canal connecting the mills at Cromford to Langley Mill. | WIKI |
| Local mill owners Jedediah Strutt and Thomas Evans opposed the proposed canal, fearing it would interfere with the water supply for their own mills, but in 1789 Parliament granted permission to construct the canal. | WIKI |
| When the Cromford Canal was opened in 1794, it had cost nearly twice Jessop's original estimate. | WIKI |
| Between Langley Mill and Cromford Wharf, where the canal terminated in the mill complex, the canal crossed two aqueducts, traversed 3,000xc2xa0yd (2,700xc2xa0m) of tunnel beneath some ironworks at Bull Bridge, and fourteen locks. | WIKI |
| [22] Three quarters of the cargo transported on the canal was coal and coke, while the rest consisted of gritstone, iron ore, and lead. | WIKI |
| In January 1845, the Cromford Canal Company decided to have a permanent pump built to provide enough water during dry conditions. | WIKI |
| The canal was successful until the mid 19th century when the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway extended its line south of the canal. | WIKI |
| In 1852, the canal was sold to the railway company which accelerated its decline. | WIKI |
| By 1889 the canal was mostly used for local traffic. | WIKI |
| It was eventually closed in 1944 as the cost of maintaining and repairing the canal were too great. | WIKI |
| Derbyshire County Council acquired the canal in 1974 and the Cromford Canal Society undertook the task of restoring it. | WIKI |
| In the early 19th century, a canal had been proposed to connect the Peak Forest Canal, which terminated at Whaley Bridge, with the Cromford Canal, providing a direct route between markets in Lancashire and Derbyshire. | WIKI |
| Josias Jessop, the son of William Jessop, believed that a wagonway would be much cheaper than a canal. | WIKI |
| The railway ascended from 277xc2xa0ft (84xc2xa0m) above sea level at Cromford Wharf to a height of 1,264xc2xa0ft (385xc2xa0m) above sea level at Ladmanlow, before descending to 747xc2xa0ft (228xc2xa0m) at the wharves of the Peak Forest Canal. | WIKI |
| The changes in height, which would have necessitated many locks for a canal, was relatively easy for a railway. | WIKI |
| [28] The construction of the railway cost was xc2xa3180,000, higher than the original estimate of xc2xa3155,000 (xc2xa313xc2xa0million and xc2xa311xc2xa0million respectively as of 2021)[10] but much lower than the xc2xa3500,000 the canal was predicted to cost (xc2xa336xc2xa0million as of 2021). | WIKI |
| The line was not profitable as by the time it had opened traffic had declined along the Cromford Canal. | WIKI |
| [53] Leawood Pumphouse is now a working museum which still does the original job of pumping water from the Derwent to Cromford Canal, Open on selected weekends. | WIKI |