Thread: River Erewash at Sandiacre/Stapleford

and very near the Toton railway yard. This is not a canal - the Erewash Canal is a quarter of a mile to the west. So why has the river been divided down the centre? To aid navigation?

Photos taken from Station Road. Looking north



and south.

Most peculiar. it seems to appear between 1957 and 1967 on OS maps. It may be a coincidence, but just south of where it begins a district boundary of some sort comes wiggling in from the west, carries on south down the centre of the river , and, a short distance before the barrier is shown to end, wiggles off to the west again. Don't see why boundaries should mean a barrier is erected though

Also, at that point the river is the boundary between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.