Josias Jessop
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Josias Jessop was a canal engineer, and second son of William Jessop, one of the great canal engineers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was trained by his father, and worked u
Devil's Hole Lock on Jessop's Wey and Arun Canal
Jessop's five-arched viaduct for the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway
The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway in the United Kingdom. It was completed in 1819, to make a transport link between Mansfield and the Cromford Canal at Pinxton. An imp
Josias Jessop
…Josias used these rails on his next project, an 8-mile (13 km) railway which ran from Mansfield to the Cromford Canal at Pinxton. Construction of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was authorised on 16 June 1817, and an opening ceremony was held on 13 April 1819, close to a viaduct which carried the railway over the River Maun at…
The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway viaduct over the River Maun outfall from the mill-pond originally powering the old King's Mill, looking towards Mansfield
Pinxton Wharf. Tickets to travel on the railway could be bought at the Boat Inn