A horse drawn narrowboat is brought into service by "The Friends of Cromford Canal" occasionally on the only navigable section of the Cromford Canal near to the Derbyshire village of Cromford itself.
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A partial collapse of the Butterley Tunnel in 1900 due to mining related subsidence split the Cromford Canal into two.
English actor Brian Blessed is the president of Friends of the Cromford Canal.
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At the end of the eighteenth century an extension was proposed to the Erewash Canal by various interested parties who wished to encourage coal mining further north.
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The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway in the United Kingdom, completed in 1819 to transport coal to Mansfield from the head of the Pinxton branch of the Cromford Canal from collieries along the Erewash valley served by the Erewash Canal.
The Newlands Inn served the Cromford Canal as a place where the narrow boat horses were changed and probably where the narrow boat crews were refreshed prior to or after legging it through the tunnel.
The nearby Cromford Canal towpath to High Peak Junction, and onwards towards Ambergate, is listed as a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).