Erewash Canal

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The Erewash Canal is an 18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, historically built to serve local coalfields and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.

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Erewash Canal canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf canal
navigable waterway
builtFor commercial freight
connectsTo Cromford Canal
Nottingham Canal
Trent and Mersey Canal
constructionBegan 1777
country England
crosses River Erewash
currentPrimaryUse leisure boating
recreation
declineOfCommercialTraffic 20th century
follows River Erewash
surface form: River Erewash valley
hasJunction Langley Mill Basin
Trent Lock junction
hasStructure bridges
locks
wharves
hasTowpath yes
historicalEra 18th century
length about 12 miles
locatedIn Derbyshire
East Midlands
Nottinghamshire
managedBy Canal & River Trust
nearbyTown Ilkeston
Long Eaton
Sandiacre
Stapleford
numberOfLocks 14
opened 1779
partOf Inland waterway network of England
surface form: British inland waterways network
passesThrough Sandiacre Lock
surface form: Sandiacre Lock area

Shipley Gate
Trowell
primaryHistoricalUse transport of coal
region Erewash
surface form: Erewash district
restoredFor pleasure craft
servedIndustry coal mining
ironworks
servedRegion Nottinghamshire coalfield
surface form: Erewash Valley coalfield
status navigable
terminusAt Langley Mill
Trent Lock
usedFor angling
cycling
walking
waterwayNumber Erewash Canal self-link

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River Trent hasCanalConnection Erewash Canal
River Erewash flowsParallelTo Erewash Canal
Long Eaton hasCanal Erewash Canal
Sandiacre hasCanal Erewash Canal
Cromford Canal connectedTo Erewash Canal
Erewash Borough containsWaterBody Erewash Canal
Erewash Canal waterwayNumber Erewash Canal self-link
Nottingham Canal connectsTo Erewash Canal