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Gresley's canal terminated
at a wharf alongside what is now the A34 - Newcastle College grounds
occupies the site.
The connection with the
Junction Canal can be seen top left.
Robert
Malabar's 1847 Map of Newcastle-under-Lyme
top left of the map shows the
junction between Sir Nigel Gresley's canal (light blue line) and the
Junction Canal (dark blue line).
The purple line is Hempstalls Lane and the green box is what is now
Station Walks.
the red box is Thompson's
cotton mill on London Road and the brown circle is the Brampton Silk Mill
on Hempstalls Lane
Newcastle-under-Lyme College on the A34
the location of the Coal Wharf and terminus of Gresley's canal
is lost beneath the college grounds alongside the A34.
Swift House,
Liverpool Rd, Newcastle under Lyme
At Cross Heath on the northwest outskirts of Newcastle,
this cotton mill building located between Gresley's
Canal and the Junction Canal now houses firms dealing in motorbikes and
mobile phones.
the original cotton mill
building can be clearly seen behind the cladding and extensions
© Derek Harper June 2006
When Sir Nigel Gresley died
in 1787 his son (Nigel Bowyer Gresley) tried to sell the Apedale Estate
including: Farms, Woods, Coal Mines, the Canal, boats and wharfs,
iron-stone mines and a blast furnace (yielding about 20 tons of pig-iron a
week).
The estate did not sell and
after the death of Nigel Bowyer Gresley in 1808 the canal was jointly
owned by members of the Levett, Edensor and Ggresley families.
The wharf on the present A34
continued to operate until the mid 1800's. Gresley's Canal closed around
1857. The Junction Canal was abandoned c. 1851 and closed in 1864.
The Newcastle to Stoke Canal
lasted the longest and was part closed in 1921 and abandoned in 1935.
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