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This stretch of footpath is on the line of an old tramway, which ran from Loscoe Colliery to wharves on the Erewash and Nottingham Canals, near the Anchor Inn. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey First Series map of 1836. By 1880, the western part of the tramway had been replaced by the Midland Railway Heanor Branch. This railway retained a junction with the remaining eastern part of the tramway, which still served the canals. By 1900, the remaining tramway had disappeared and this stretch is marked as a footpath.