[1] The canal was used to transport coal from Sir Nigel Gresley's mines.

[2] The act placed controls on the price at which coal transported via the canal to Newcastle could be sold for the following 42 years.

[3] The canal was transferred to the ownership of Robert Edensor Heathcote in 1827.

[5] The canal joined the Newcastle-under-Lyme Junction Canal at a mill in Cross Heath, a site now occupied by a motorbike shop in Swift House on the A34 Liverpool Road.

It then ran northwest to Milehouse, Chesterton and the Apedale mines.