Complex sentence: This was one of the first man-made waterways in England, with locks at Beeston linking Eastwood to the River Trent, and Nottingham, and its arrival led to a rapid expansion of the local coal mining industry.
Split into simpler sentences: This was one of the first man-made waterways in England, with locks at Beeston linking Eastwood to the River Trent, and Nottingham. This led to a rapid expansion of the local coal mining industry.