Golden Valley, Riddings - Coach Road Traditional Cache
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Golden Valley, Riddings - Coach Road
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A nice easy driveby cache. Please use stealth as it can get busy here at times. Tweezers will be needed to remove the log.
Golden Valley is a small village between the villages of Riddings and Codnor. The Coach Road was once a private toll road from Ironville to Ripley. The section between Ironville and Golden Valley is still a public road, however the section to Ripley is now largely private. The Eastern Portal of the Cromford Canal Tunnel starts in Golden Valley and runs for 3,083 yards to Hammersmith, Ripley. In 1889 subsidence caused the tunnel to be closed for a period of four years with the tunnel reopening after repairs in 1893. This closure resulted in the permanent loss of some of the canal's customers to competing railway companies. A partial collapse of the Butterley Tunnel in 1900 due to mining related subsidence split the Cromford Canal into two.[3] The tunnel has not yet been repaired. Rudolph de Salis undertook a government funded survey of the tunnel in 1904 but his report was not favourable. Rudolph de Salis was a director of Fellows Morton and Clayton, a prominent canal freight company. A third tunnel collapse in 1907 and a government report by Sir William Matthews KCMG in June 1907 ended hopes of repairing the tunnel at this time and the tunnel was pronounced beyond economical repair in 1909. Commercial traffic on the canal ceased in 1944
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