DescriptionDerwent Mouth Lock east of Shardlow, Derbyshire - geograph.org.uk - 1555052.jpg
English: Derwent Mouth Lock east of Shardlow, Derbyshire This is Lock No 1 of the 76 locks on the Trent and Mersey Canal on its way to Preston Brook, where it joins the Bridgewater Canal, initially en route for the River Mersey at Runcorn. The canal starts here at Derwent Mouth three hundred metres ahead of this lock.
The canal was authorised in 1766, and James Brindley was engaged to engineer the project. The 93.5 mile canal was fully opened in 1777.
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