Cromford Canal Embankment is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1988. Canal embankment.

Cromford Canal Embankment

WRENN ID: ragged-parapet-sable
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Amber Valley
Country: England
Date first listed: 25 May 1988
Type: Canal embankment
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SK 35 SE RIPLEY DROVERS WAY, Bullbridge

3/80 Cromford Canal Embankment

GV II

Canal embankment. 1793 by William Jessop and Benjamin Outram. Coursed squared stone. Approximately 100 feet long and 40 feet high. Stone retaining walls with plain band near the base of the walls and rounded rubble copings. Central barrel vaulted tunnel through the embankment with rubble arches and buttress-like jambs to the entrances. Southern end of the embankment truncated during road widening operations in 1970s. F Nixon, Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire Pg 232.

Listing NGR: SK3592752335

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