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
- Constituency
- Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1988
- Type
- Canal embankment
- Address
- Cromford Canal Embankment, Drovers Way, Ripley
- OS grid reference
- SK 359 523
- Coordinates
- 53.06676, -1.46496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cromford Canal Embankment is a canal embankment built in 1793 by William Jessop and Benjamin Outram. It is constructed from coursed squared stone and measures approximately 100 feet long and 40 feet high. The embankment features stone retaining walls that have a plain band near the base and rounded rubble copings. There is a central barrel vaulted tunnel that runs through the embankment, supported by rubble arches and buttress-like jambs at the entrances. The southern end of the embankment was truncated during road widening operations in the 1970s.
Local climate
Cromford Canal Embankment receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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