The tithe map below shows Dewsnap Basin in the context of three nearby coal mines owned by the Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Company, namely, Dewsnap Colliery, Dewsnap New Pit (better known as Dewsnap Pit) and Astley's New Pit (better known as Astley Deep Pit). These pits were collectively known as Dukinfield Collieries. The map shows Dewsnap Pit and Astley Deep Pit as not then being connected by tramways to the Peak Forest Canal at Dewsnap Basin but the older Dewsnap Colliery is shown connected to the canal at Dog Lane Basin by means of a tramway running down the length of Globe Lane to Globe Square and then the short distance down to the basin. At an earlier time, Dewsnap Colliery was connected by tramway to the canal at Dewsnap Colliery Coal Basin. In 1850, this tramway and its associated basin are shown as being abandoned. The reason for this abandonment is unclear unless it was related to the impending closure of Dewsnap Colliery and the development of Dewsnap Pit that replaced it. The map also shows a tramway connection from Dewsnap Colliery to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
Nevertheless, the tramways from Dewsnap Pit and Astley Deep Pit to Dewsnap Basin are shown on Ordnance Survey maps of 1875, 1892, and 1908 although by 1908 they would have been abandoned. By 1922 both tramways had been removed leaving no trace of their former existence on the Ordnance Survey map of that year. By this time, the Carriage and Waggon Works of the Great Central Railway Company (formerly the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company) had been built along the north side of Globe Lane on the sites of Dewsnap Pit and Dewsnap Colliery.
The tramway from Dewsnap Pit to Dewsnap Basin passed over Globe Lane, whereas the tramway from Astley Deep Pit passed below it. The latter tramway also passed over the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
Dewsnap Basin, 1962.
The boat, broken in two, is
Henry.
