The Derby Canal ran 14 miles (23 km) from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to Derby and Little Eaton and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre in Derbyshire England. The canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1793 and was fully completed in 1796. It featured a level crossing of the River Derwent in the centre of Derby. An early tramroad known as the Little Eaton Gangway linked Little Eaton to coal mines at Denby.
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