Cromford railway station is located on the Matlock-Derby Derwent Valley Line, and can be seen on the cover of the 1995 Oasis single Some Might Say.
The Gell family, who were local Hopton landowners heavily involved in the nearby Wirksworth leadmining, had the Via Gellia built to connect Cromford and Grangemill in the 18th C. Cromford also has a village lock-up that was used to detain drunks and suspected criminals.
The Cromford Canal ran 14.5 miles (23 km) from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England and thence to Pinxton.
This would carry coal to Cromford, which was becoming industrialised, and limestone from the area for the growing iron industry.
Arkwright complained that the canal crossed his land and insisted that water should be obtained from the river by raising the height of the weir at Masson Mill.
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