Archival/written
The Waterways Archive
A wide range of archival material relating to Nottinghamshire canals is held by the Waterways Archive. See the online catalogue for further details: www.virtualwaterways.co.uk/search_quick.php
Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham
A wide range of archival material relating to canals, e.g.
- Landing book of the Cromford Canal Company, Derbyshire, 1825 [MS/176]
- Pamphlet entitled "Grantham Canal Facts", 1770-1790 [Ne C 4452]
- Letter from supporters of the petition for the Chesterfield to East Retford Canal to [W.H.C. Bentinck] 3rd Duke of Portland; 8 Dec. 1770 [Pw F 10011]
- Records of the Trent Navigation Company, 1780-1934 [RtN]
See the online catalogue for further details: mssweb.nottingham.ac.uk/catalogue/
Nottinghamshire Archives
Records include:
- Account book of goods transported by canal or river from the Nottingham wharf of an unnamed carrier's company (possibly the Nottingham Boat), 1791 – 1808 [DD/2068/2/1]
- Correspondence and accounts concerning the take-over of the Grantham Canal Navigation Company and the Nottingham Canal Company by the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Company, 1843-1857 [DD/2040/4/1]
- Papers relating to Nottingham Canal in the Edge of Strelley collection, 1791-1802 [DD/E/35]
- Broadsheet giving the objections to the proposed tax on the tonnage of goods carried on canals, issued by the Nottingham Canal Co., 1796 [DD/TS/17/5]
See the online catalogue and Access to Archives website for further details:
The National Archives
“The National Archives holds the inherited records of canal companies (taken over by rail companies, nationalised, and handed over as public records); records of the involvement of government in the canal transport system; and many and various other records.” Records include:
- Nottingham Canal Minute books (1790-1856) [RAIL 854]
- Minutes of the Grantham Canal Navigation Company (1793-1854) [RAIL 833]
- Plans of Nottingham Canal, reservoirs and feeders (1899) [RAIL 236/1183]
- Bill of costs of Mr. Simpson for soliciting the Derby and Nottingham Canal Bill (1792-4) [RAIL 1019/15/54]
- Resolutions of meeting of delegates from Grand Trunk and Erewash Canal Companies, held at Derby to consider extension of various canals to Derby and the cut proposed from the Derwent Mouth to the Nottingham Canal (1792) [RAIL 1019/15/20]
- Chesterfield Canal Committee minutes, 1847 [RAIL 463/61]
- LNER Works Committee: tenders for the alteration and repair of lock at entrance of Chesterfield Canal to River Trent, Stockwith, 1923-25 [RAIL 390/465]
There is a useful research guide: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/canals.htm
- See the online catalogue for further details: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp