Exploring the Mysterious Origins of the Puddle Bank Unveiling Canal Secrets #UKCanals #Chesterfield

The Future Aqueduct of Chesterfield

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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 second part of 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. Then the canal follows down onto puddlebanks which is a fascinating area which we explore today, from interlocking clay blocks to a massive aqueduct as the canal goes high on an embankment winding it’s way through towards the Norbridge Arm, Renishaw. Killamarsh and towards the locks and Norwood Tunnel

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it’s one of the early clay embankments that was built on the canal Network and I think people know they know more about what was built sort of 20 years later um but this was the late’ 70s late 1770s and we don’t really know so actually one of the most interesting things for us about the puddle Bank project is going to be getting in there cuz we will have to remove some of the old sections of puddle Bank in order to um just in order to get to do the engineering cuz a lot of it subsided so we’re going to have to rebuild a lot of it up one of the most things is going to be getting in there when we do that to understand and try and see whether we can work out how it was built cuz I say we really don’t know and it’s and and it’s quite fascinating cuz it’s it’s a big structure in those days so far 12 miles of this can now been restored