2014

SK5739 : Nottingham Canal, Nottingham

taken 10 years ago, near to Nottingham, England

Nottingham Canal, Nottingham
Nottingham Canal, Nottingham
Looking towards the Carrington Street bridge.
Nottingham Canal

The Nottingham Canal was 14.7 miles long from Langley Mill to the River Trent in Nottingham. William Jessop was appointed in 1791 to survey the Canal but most of the work was done by James Green. The canal was put before Parliament in 1792 and Benjamin Outram made engineer under Jessop who had to give up the post as Chief Engineer before completion due to illness. The canal opened in 1796 after many difficulties at a cost of £43,500, twice the estimate. From the 1840s after the arrival of the railways the canal declined and was abandoned altogether in 1936 by the then owners Great Northern Railway Co. The section between the Trent and Lenton was passed to Trent Navigation Company at this time. Most of the canal was built over from 1955 but the section from Derby Road to Lenton Chain was re-used as a new course for the River Leen and so is still in water and remains in use as part of the Beeston and Nottingham Canal that allows boats to navigate past the shallow water on the Trent at Clifton Bridge and the weir at Beeston.


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Geographical Context: City, Town centre Canals Primary Subject: Canal
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SK5739, 3590 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Stephen McKay   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 5 September, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 9 September, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 5737 3930 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:56.8815N 1:8.8577W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 5740 3930
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WEST (about 270 degrees)
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