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Butterley in Derby County England History and GeographyBUTTERLEY, a hamlet in the township of RIPLEY, parish of PENTRICH, hundred of MORLESTON and LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 3 miles (S.) from Alfreston. The population is returned with Ripley. The extensive iron-works at this place belong to a company formed in 1792, who are also owners of various similar establishments, collieries, and lime-works in the vicinity. The ore and coal are conveyed to the Butterley works by railways, and by the Cromford canal which, by means of a tunnel two thousand nine hundred and sixty-six yards in length, passes under the works; to this a shaft about thirty-six yards in depth has been sunk, up which the ore is raised by a steam-engine. There are about fifteen hundred workmen; and the number of steamengines employed in the works and mines is twenty-six, affording an aggregate power equal to that of seven hundred and six horses. All the heavier articles in cast-iron, and machinery of various kinds, are produced at these works: among those made for different public undertakings may be enumerated the castiron work for Vauxhall bridge, the great roof over the quay and other works at the West India docks, the bridges and lock-gates of the Caledonian canal, a great part of the cast-iron work for the dock-yard at Sheerness, and the whole of that for the harbours and docks at Dublin and Leith, the large main pipes for supplying Edinburgh with water, and the pipes for many of the Water and Gas Companies in England: several steamengines for vessels, and for exportation to the colonies, have been made: the entire process of constructing them, from the raising of the ore to completing the engine, is here carried on. The Cromford canal affords a medium for the conveyance of goods by water to Cromford, where the navigation terminates, and where the Cromford and High Peak railway, planned by Josias Jessop, Esq. of Butterby (the expense of constructing which is estimated at £180,000), commences, extending to Whalley-bridge, near Stockport, a distance of about 32½ miles: another, called the Stockport Junction railway, has been planned, connecting the former with the Manchester and Liverpool line, thus forming a distinct medium of communication between Cromford and Liverpool. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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