Over two hundred years ago the Cromford Canal was built in a landscape which was in the process of being transformed from rural backwater to industrial heartland. The Canal was both a product of those changes and one of the means by which those changes would accelerate and ultimately create the world’s first industrial nation.
The inland waterways of England and Wales have now been reinvented as leisure and recreational route-ways they are a major economic and social resource estimated to bring around £1.7 billion per year to the English & Welsh economies (Jacobs 2009, Coles 2015).
Free Cromford Canal Map Download
Waterway Routes, the well-known and much respected canal map publisher, has made available a detailed map of the Cromford Canal (along with the Derby, Erewash, Nutbrook and Nottingham canals) free to download from their website. An example of the kind of detail in the map can be seen on this extract. What’s more, regular updates are made, so maps are kept up to date (hopefully as more becomes navigable!). You can find the download page by clicking the button below.