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Retaining Walls to Weir Adjacent to Glow Worm Foundry, Belper

Description: Retaining Walls to Weir Adjacent to Glow Worm Foundry

Grade: II
Date Listed: 13 December 1979
English Heritage Building ID: 78524

OS Grid Reference: SK3488445394
OS Grid Coordinates: 434884, 345394
Latitude/Longitude: 53.0047, -1.4816

Location: Chevin Road, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 0RZ

Locality: Belper
Local Authority: Amber Valley
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Postcode: DE56 0RZ

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Listing Text

FORGE LANE
1.
5167
Retaining walls to
Weir adjacent
to Glow-worm Foundry
SK 3445 5/174
II
2.
Pre-Strutt stone paved sloping weir. Concave curve upstream. Related mill-goit
with sluice gates at each side of river. (Northern goit used to power Strutt
foundry, southern one for Milford Cotton Mills). Stone bases for former iron
footbridge still in situ across weir.



Listing NGR: SK3488445394

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.



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