Rewatering Renishaw
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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.
We then take a look down the Renishaw section to see the Rewatering Renishaw plans and then onto the Brindley Loops where we end the video.
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11 Comments
The wooded area will be nice with the canal running through. It’s great to see the land reclaimed for nature and leisure use after the railway lines were no longer needed. Great vlog thanks so much
Thank's for a very interesting update . Looks like there's plenty going-on in this impressive project. The clearance of foliage and re-lining should bring about a dramatic change in a relatively short period of time. But, I guess if HS2 had gone ahead, it would have posed considerable headaches – and cost implications.
your audio is overdriving somewhere. Very scratchy on the lower end.
Great plan work as usual. As usual I would like to study the detail and annotations so would appreciate more time given to the plan illustration 'frames'.
Looks absolutely amazing and another excellent and informative video as usual!
Bellhouse basin that you walked past still has the 3 wooden boats buried one being a cuckoo boat that’s unique to the canal. I do believe the basin it’s going to be restored.
thanks for that update
I lived in Chesterfield from 92 to 99 opposite the old football ground onSaltergate. I regularly used to ride through town and get on the canal towpath and ride down to Staveley. The canal had only been restored down to the bridge that was behind Morrisons. I would continue my bike ride through to the Rother Valley Country Park. From there it was a very uncomfortable walk through a 6 foot high jungle of weeds to the road. Across the road then across to a footbridge across the railway. Then down a path to the embankment of the old Great Central Railway trackbed. It was a straight ride from there to the Country Park. So this video is amazing showing the progress they have made over the years. In the 60s when I was a kid we would regularly fish the canal near Worksop. There was a story of some workmen doing some maintenance on the canal and finding a chain. They pulled the chain out of the canal only to find that it was a plug and they drained a section completely empty. Peter Robinson (born and raised in Hodthorpe near Whitwell). Now living in Northampton for the last 25 years
The phase 2a may have been cut but there are plenty saying that it needs built aspa, hoping so that canal and rail still work together
Couldn't follow that first five minutes at all, had no idea where in the area being shown you were talking about, and the rapid-fire cut-shots only made the confusion worse.
My late father was originally from Clay Cross so we visited the area regularly through the 1960s & 70s.
Nearest canal to me now is the Lancaster, as I live in West Cumbria (born in Cumbria, spent childhood in Leicester before coming back home to Cumbria, then time in London in the late 80s – early 90s before heading home again).