Narrow boats on the Trent and Mersey canal, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, UK
by Neale And Judith Clark
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Narrow boats on the Trent and Mersey canal, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Neale And Judith Clark
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Canal boats Shardlow - Narrow boats on the Trent and Mersey canal Shardlow Derbyshire England UK GB Europe
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Shardlow is a village in Derbyshire, England.
An important late 18th-century river port for the trans-shipment of goods to and from the River Trent to the Trent and Mersey Canal, during its heyday from the 1770s to the 1840s it became referred to as "Rural Rotterdam" and "Little Liverpool". Today Shardlow is considered Britain's most complete surviving example of a canal village, with over 50 Grade II listed buildings and many surviving public houses within the designated Shardlow Wharf Conservation Area.
The village is listed as Serdelau in the Domesday Book - translated as a settlement near a mound with a notch or indentation. The oldest surviving building today in the village is believed to be the "Dog & Duck" public house, located in the upper end of the village.
The River Trent below Shardlow is navigable all the way to the Humber Estuary, as is the River Soar which joins 2 miles further downstream. Resultantly Shardlow was always an important transport hub and trading point, as wide-beam ships and boats traded cargo commercially with the packhorse trails going across the region
The last grain-carrying narrow boat delivered its cargo to Shardlow in the early 1950s. In 1957 the stable block which had housed over 100 towing horses was demolished, latterly followed by some of the smaller warehouses and buildings over the next twenty years. A campaign led by the newly-formed Trent & Mersey Canal Society resulted in the designation in 1975 of the Shardlow Wharf Conservation Area, which today encompasses over 50 Grade II listed buildings.
Most of the warehouses and other port buildings have been converted to other commercial uses, or as private dwellings
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