Hollingwood Common Canal

The Hollingwood Common Canal (alternatively the Hollingwood Common Canal Tunnel or the Hollingwood Common Tunnel) is a disused navigable coal mine adit which terminated at the Chesterfield Canal at Hollingwood, near Staveley, Derbyshire.

The canal tunnel was 1.75 miles (2.82 km) long, and measured six feet (1.8 m) high, five feet nine inches (1.75 m) with two feet (0.61 m) of water. Its water level was one foot (0.30 m) lower than that of the canal, requiring the trans-shipment of coal at a wharf constructed at the terminus.[1][2] The wharf was on the old line of the Chesterfield Canal, prior to the 1892 cut being constructed. The entrance to the tunnel is still visible, though is gated off.[3]

Boats used were loaded underground within the coal mine the tunnel served; these boats were twenty-one feet (6.4 m) long and three feet six inches (1.07 m) wide, and held seven cones or boxes containing twenty to twenty two hundredweight of coal each.[4]