Canal Restoration Exploring the Future of Waterways #UKCanals #Chesterfield #Restoration

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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but yeah so that’s an old wall there narrow this section of canal down as it runs up through into the pedal Banks so this is the next stage in 9 Mi of canal restoration for the trust which from what I’ve heard they want to get done this decade which is incredible let’s be honest whever they do that I have no idea but we do hope that they will because it’s going to give me a lot of content to bring you over the next few years so from my waterway route Maps there’s a slight uh change in the the running of the canal here it’s moving across obious this lightly uh I believe that’s probably just landowner issues but this is then going up into the bank that runs all the way around here now this is basically just a big clay bank with a canal in the top and it’s a way of running this canal more as a contour Canal rather than than locks meant you could get over this Valley without you know having to drop down come back up through and climb back up embankments on canals are a bit of an issue