Description: Looking south towards Trowell showing the largely infilled course of the canal and the multi-user trail laid alongside (the one-time towpath was to the right here). The hole in the middle distance was retained as a pond; there was formerly a swing bridge at this point, one abutment of which can just be detected on the right-hand side in this view.
The Nottingham Canal extended from the River Trent at Nottingham in a generally north-westerly direction for 14.7 miles (23.6 kilometres) via Lenton, Radford, Wollaton, Trowell, Cossall, and Awsworth to Langley Mill where it connected with the Cromford and Erewash Canals. Its main purpose was the movement of coal from mines in the Erewash Valley to Nottingham. Opened in 1796, it was later acquired by the Great Northern Railway but, apart from the Nottingham-Lenton section (which was transferred to the Trent Navigation Company and, via its link with the Beeston Canal, remains in use today), it was abandoned in 1936.