An Analysis of the Physical and Economic Factors That Influenced the Building of the Chesterfield Canal and Its Subsequent History
1 An Analysis of the Physical and Economic Factors that Influenced the Building of the Chesterfield Canal and its Subsequent History By John Alan Taylor, BA, Dip Ed Contents List of Illustrations, p2 Preface, p3 Chapter 1 - THE GEOLOGY OF THE CHESTERFIELD CANAL, p11 Chapter 2 - THE LANDFORMS AND DRAINAGE OF THE AREA, p21 Chapter 3 - HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL FACTORS, p25 Chapter 4 - THE CHESTERFIELD CANAL, p29 Conclusion – p44 Appendix 1 - Chesterfield Canal; list of locks and mileages, p46 Appendix 2 - Part of the summit pound on the eastern section of the canal, p47 Appendix 3 - Generalised vertical sections, p48 Acknowledgements, p 52 2 Illustrations A starvationer boat, p3 A cuckoo boat in 1906, p6 Dawn Rose, p6 Figure 1, Course of the canal, p8 First paragraphs of the Act of Parliament authorising the canal, p 8 Figure 2, Section along the Chesterfield Canal, p9 Figure 3, Geological Timescale, Cambrian to present day, p10 Figure 4, Cross-section showing Paleozoic and later rocks at Ingleborough, p12 Figure 5, Relief of the Pennines and the position of the relevant blocks, p14 Figure 6, Rocks of the Pennines and adjacent areas, p15 Figure 7, Cross- section of the Upper and Middle Coal Measures, p17 Figure 8, Anticlines and synclines in the Chesterfield area, p18 Figure 9, Geology along the route of the canal between the Rother Valley and Thorpe Locks, p20 Figure 10, Land forms (principal escarpments) of the area around the route of the canal, p21 Figure 11, The Matlock area, geology and former lead mines, p22 Figure 12, Horizon - Contour Map of the Don Monocline p,23 Figure 13, Geology of the route of the canal through the Worksop area, p24 West Stockwith, p24 Figure 14, Sites of the principal coal mines, p30 Figure 15, The principal waterways and towns before 1794, p32 Figure 16, Waterways in the North Midlands area, p33 Figure 17, Canal, tunnel and feeder reservoirs, p35 Figure 18, Geology of fig.
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