page_title: Twyford and Stenson
section_title: Twyford Ferry
hierarchical_section_title: Twyford and Stenson / Twyford Ferry
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Twyford Ferry, Derbyshire in 1899. Author not shown on source website or on the image itself. The source article links to (https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033254/http://www.igreens.org.uk/twyford_ferry_1899.jpg) but both this archived page and (https://web.archive.org/web/20150317234305/http:/www.igreens.org.uk:80/alrewas_to_kings_mills.htm) do not show an author.
context_page_description: Twyford and Stenson is a civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. Located south of Derby on the Trent and Mersey Canal, it consists of two villages, Stenson and its smaller neighbour Twyford.
  Between Stenson and Derby itself lies the busy A50 dual-carriageway and Stenson Fields, a large housing estate built between the early 1970s and late 1990s. Stenson Fields is constituted as a separate parish wholly within South Derbyshire District, but it is essentially contiguous with the Sunny Hill, Sinfin and Littleover suburbs of Derby city. The parish of Stenson Fields was created in 1983 from parts of the parish of Barrow-upon-Trent and the parish of Twyford and Stenson. Originally called Sinfin Moor the name was later changed to Stenson Fields to be in keeping with the geographical and historical place name of the area. Sinfin Moor is a large tract of land to the east of Stenson Fields and Sinfin proper. Sinfin Moor is a Regionally Important Geological Site which formed over the bed of an ice age lake. Part of the RIGS spills over into Stenson Fields close to the hamlet of Arleston.
  Stenson Lock is lock number 6.
context_section_description: The river crossing at Twyford was mentioned in 1712, and again in 1790, when it could carry two horses. The chain ferry linked the village with Milton on the far side of the river saving a long detour via Swarkestone Bridge. Floods after the thaw of the Winter of 1963, saw the ferryboat swept away, and it was never reinstated. The ferry posts that supported the chain, still remain on both sides of the river.
caption: Twyford Ferry 1899
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