The Chesterfield Canal.

Proposed in 1769.

Capital raised by 1771.

Completed in 1777.

For the History of the Canal see http://chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/History.shtml

From land locked Chesterfield to the sea via the River Trent at West Stockwith near Gainsborough.

CHESTERFIELD TO MILL GREEN STAVELEY.

A strange tangled tree sits near to the start of the canal.

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The split and canal source. River Rother flows top. Canal starts bottom.

Tapton Mill Bridge.

Housing people along the way.

Tapton Lock.

The railways cross.

The site of the long forgotten Lockoford No1 Colliery.

 Wildfowl.

Wheeldon Mill Lock.

Bilby Lane Bridge.

Dixon’s Lock.

Hollingwood.

Stone rail sets with wooden pegs inserted. Staveley Coal & Iron Company.

Staveley Colliery Pumping Shaft. Staveley Coal & Iron Company.

Mill Green Bridge.

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All photographs copyright A.N. Bridgewater 2009.