Finally in 1844 it built the Erewash Valley line as far as Pinxton in 1847, with a link to the Butterley Company's own railway at Codnor Park in 1849.
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.
From the profits of his colliery at Pinxton, D'Ewes Coke (1747-1811) of Brookhill Hall, a clergyman colliery master, founded a local school and an educational charity.
Pinxton Football Club is a football club based in Pinxton, Derbyshire.
Pinxton Porcelain was a porcelain works created by John Coke and William Billingsley in Pinxton in Derbyshire, England.
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Pinxton Porcelain was founded on land rented from the Reverend D'Ewes Coke's third son who went into business with the businessman and porcelain painter William Billingsley.