Great place to visit if you have any interest in the economic history of canals and railways of the 1800s. Learn about the men who wanted to transport cotton products and stone from Derbyshire to Manchester. The railway repair shop looks just as it did the day it closed in 1967. It had been working since 1830 There is a Canal side walk past Leewood pumping Station which has an original beam engine that pumped water from the river Derwent into the Cromford canal. Pre covid, it was possible to go inside and see it working,as at Middleton Top winding house. Now powered by compressed air, you can see how the engineers built grand machines to drive industry. The disused High Peak railway track is now a popular path for waking and cyclists.
