Leawood Pumphouse

Leawood Pumphouse Leawood Pump is over 150 years old and pumps four tons of water into the canal with each piston stroke! on Saturdays and 8 p.m. on Sundays.

The Leawood Pump House was built in 1849 to supply water to the Cromford Canal, built some 50 years previously. It is a Grade II* listed building located a little along the canal towpath from High Peak Junction, it stands to a height of 45 feet (14 m) on the right bank of the River Derwent, at the end of the Derwent Aqueduct, and has a 95-foot (29 m) chimney stack with a cast-iron cap. The Watt-ty

pe beam engine was designed and erected by Graham and Company of Milton Works, Elsecar, Sheffield. The beam length is 33 feet (10 m), the piston diameter 50 inches (1.3 m), stroke of 10 feet (3.0 m) and the engine works at 7 strokes per minute. The boilers, replaced in 1900, have a pressure of 40 p.s.i. Water is drawn from the River Derwent through a 150-yard (140 m) tunnel to a reservoir in the basement. It is then lifted 30 feet (9.1 m) and discharged into the canal. The immense size of the pump (which can transfer almost four tons of water per stroke and seven strokes a minute, a total of over 39,000 tons of water per 24 hours) is explained by the fact that there were restrictions on removing water from the Derwent river, this being allowed only between 8 p.m. The pumphouse worked continuously from 1849 until 1944 when the canal closed. It was restored in 1979 by the Cromford Canal Society and is run periodically.

Smashing story about the cottage here. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
09/03/2021

Smashing story about the cottage here. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

25/08/2020

Make yourself a cuppa, sit back and enjoy our annual newsletter - only available on-line this year:http://www.derwentvalleymills.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DVMWHS-Newsletter-2020-for-email.pdf

20/05/2020

We've just heard from Friends of Cromford Canal that their Chair will be on BBC Radio Derby at 13:20.Tune in to find out more about their activities and this gem of a canal.

18/05/2020

It's International Museums Day today.
While our countryside team doesn't look after museums, we do take care of natural and industrial heritage sites.
We're sorry you can't access the fantastic buildings at Middleton Top Engine House, High Peak Junction Workshops or Leawood Pump, but you can still enjoy our fantastic countryside. If you are walking the beautiful Cromford Canal or Chesterfield Canal, please remember that towpaths are narrow, making social distancing difficult. Plan your visits for quiet times or chose somewhere else to walk or cycle.

17/04/2020

Tomorrow (Saturday 18th April) is International World Heritage Site Day. Across the globe, World Heritage Sites will be celebrating, despite Covid-19, our incredible shared heritage. Here along the Derwent Valley, we're celebrating something in particular that allowed the Derwent Valley Mills to change the world - the waterwheel. It was waterwheels that allowed textile pioneers like Jedediah Strutt and Richard Arkwright to harness the power of water to establish the world's first modern factories, along the Derwent Valley. To celebrate, we're asking people to create their own waterwheels - however you want to, by crochet, painting, drawing, weaving, collage or junk models - and displaying them in your windows or posting pictures online.
Although we are apart, let's celebrate together. Send your photos by messenger to us and we'll post them on FB!

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High Peak Junction & Lea Road
Cromford
DE45

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