Cockfield Canal
Canals That Never Were: NarrowBoat, Autumn 2025
Richard Dean
An interesting County Durham scheme is revealed by Richard Dean
George Dixon of Cockfield in County Durham was an 18th-century colliery proprietor and inventive amateur scientist who was no doubt well aware of the Duke of Bridgewater’s innovative canal works in Lancashire and Cheshire during the 1760s. For Dixon, a canal would ease distribution of coal from his pits on Cockfield Fell, leased from the Earl of Darlington, and carted to markets in North Yorkshire. The surveys he had made are recorded on a plan which has survived in the National Railway Museum archives.…
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