Chesterfield Canal
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The Chesterfield Canal is a narrow canal in the East Midlands of England and it is known locally as 'Cuckoo Dyke'. It was one of the last of the canals designed by James Brindley, who died while it wa
The Chesterfield Canal above Osberton Lock geograph.org.uk 4485078
A section of the canal undergoing restoration
The Chesterfield Canal surveyed in 1769. Published in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1777.
The eastern portal of the Norwood Tunnel
Norwood Tunnel
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Norwood Tunnel was a 2,884-yard-long, 9-foot-3-inch-wide and 12-foot-high brick lined canal tunnel on the line of the Chesterfield Canal with its Western Portal in Norwood, Derbyshire and its Eastern
Chesterfield Canal
…The price of coal to the residents of Retford dropped from 15s 6d (77.5p) to 10s 6d (52.5p) overnight. Hayton was reached on 22 February 1775, and the Norwood Tunnel opened on 9 May 1775. The canal was to be built as a narrow canal, but in 1775, nine shareholders offered to fund the extra cost of making it a broad…
The Western Portal of Norwood Tunnel in 2006