Chesterfield Canal Overview

(Staveley to Kiveton – 9 miles including Norwood Tunnel, Canal east of Norwood Tunnel owned by BW; the Canal is in various public and private ownerships to the west).

The remaining section of the Chesterfield Canal to be restored, between Staveley and Kiveton, has partly been filled in and is in mixed ownership.  Derbyshire County Council has enabled £250,000 funding, over a two-year period, towards restoration of the next section of the Canal in Derbyshire, from Staveley to Killamarsh, which is underway and there is local authority funding for a full-time Canal Partnership Manager.  Three new bridges over the canal have been built as part of the Staveley Northern Loop Road, which will remove blockages and enable half a mile of canal to be re-watered in 2011, and work has started in 2009 on a new Staveley Town Basin.  Chesterfield Canal Trust’s volunteer working party continues to support the restoration and their current focus is on a mile of canal in the Renishaw area.