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2017.01.25 Kiveton bridge Stn, Kiveton Park, South Anston, NE side of railway line, Anston Stone Wood, Lindrick Dale, Brancliffe Grange* Turnerwood Locks, Cuckoo Way (Chesterfield Canal), Kiveton Park Stn, Norwood Tunnel, Pithead Baths, Kiveton Bridge Stn. - leader Mike West - Wednesday *walk not photographed before this point - but unofficial walk from Shireoaks shown before this

If you are interested in this walk, it is suggested you look at walks on 1st August 2012 & 28th May 2014 which are related to this canal

Unofficial Walk (pictures not all in the right order)

Shireoaks level crossing

Shireoaks railway station

St Lukes Church

chapel converted into a home

terraced house formerly for miners

Shireoaks Marina on Chesterfield Canal

entrance to Shireoaks Marina

Shireoaks Marina

canal goes towards Worksop, Retford and River Trent under bridge

heading back in opposite direction towards Shiireoaks & Kiveton

The Lockeepers House on right

passing Shireoaks Station on right

Official Walk (joins unofficial walk here near Turnerwood)

official party heading towards Chesterfield Canal

crossing railway line

reaching canal

see signboard below

signboard - see enlarged details below

apparently British Waterways now less involved with charities taking a greater role

unsightly junk yard seems misplaced here

overflow point for excess water

parallel railway somewhere out there

a winding hole is a point where barges can turn around

stone for the Houses of Parliament shipped from a quarry near here on the canal

we passed Kiveton Park Station

NE end of collapsed Norwood Tunnel blocked off here. The tunnel passes under the M1 motorway and the canal continued to Chesterfield. The canals on the Chesterfield side are being rebuilt but no connection seems possible unless the Norwood Tunnel was reopened?

Kiveton Park Pithead Baths

interesting building near a sports club?

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