Description: A localised industrial revolution began with the arrival of a branch of the Cromford Canal, which forked off NE from Codnor Park to Pinxton, in the 1790's. Within a decade or so of the canal's arrival several deep coal pits, four lime kilns and a china works were in operation near to the Wharf which was the terminus for the canal, which was built to link the collieries to the river Trent. The Midland Railway line built a track from Pinxton Wharf to Mansfield in the early 19th century. It was horse drawn until 1849 when it became linked to the Erewash Valley railway. The canal was eventually abandoned, and today only a small section of this branch, near Pinxton, still retains water