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Bridging the Gap on the Chesterfield Canal

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Join me in Derbyshire as we follow the beautiful chesterfield canal as the restoration continues in the west, aiming to plug the gap and join the rest of the restored Chesterfield Canal as it winds its way down to the River Trent.

Today we are at Staveley looking at the basin, lock and bridge and follow down through on the Staveley town deal. Under the massive road bridges and away from the old open cast line which now holds the basin. Here several railways crossed the canal which are now abandoned and the planned HS2 depot was to cross. Now the trans pennine trail needs to cross the canal at a new footbridge that takes the cycle way across the canal. We see the spade in the ground for the project as Dr Hardy starts the project which should see a bridge this year. Then the canal follows down onto puddlebanks which we will see very soon on the channel!

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this takes us through this area here you’ve got the big new road bridge going across the top and then you’ll start to see work going on now this is an area absolutely crisscrossed with foot paths and Old Railway routes which are now cycle paths and you got the trans panine Trail which runs across and they need to keep that open so part of this deal is to pay for a new bridge going across and that’s what we’re here to see today so this is the far end this is where restoration currently stops like I said half a mile is being done further on that takes us almost to an aqueduct and then you’ve got to go through several towns and it’s 9 mes of restoration to get back to the other side of the tunnel so half a mile of that is quite a big section to just knock out straight away