Chesterfield Canal Trust - official website

The original canal basin in Chesterfield. This was abandoned circa 1890 when the Great Central Railway was built across it. The railway was more recently replaced by the A61 Chesterfield Bypass

A short section of the River Rother was used to link the basin to the line of the canal. The derelict land on the right is to be developed with a new canal basin.

A floodgate protects the canal from high water levels in the River Rother

Tapton Lock No1 was reopened by Canal Society Volunteers in 1990: The lock keepers cottage was built as late as 1960 and is now used as a visitor centre by the canal's new owners, Derbyshire County Council

Brimington Wharf and first blockage at Station Road, Brimington

The canal at Wheeldon Mill before restoration

The canal at Wheeldon Mill after restoration

Newbridge Lane Lock No2

109 The canal near Brimington and the new Cow Lane Bridge which was built in 2002

Dixon's Lock No4 is a completely new structure which was built by volunteers of the Chesterfield Canal Society and opened in 1995

Looking Northwards from Mill Green Bridge 2000 - the canal had been infilled in the 1980s

The same view in early 2004, Canal Trust volunteers have rebuilt the washwalls

The same view showing the canal being dredged.

The finished canal, summer 2004

Mill Green Bridge had been infilled and a concrete dam inserted - this view of the first Canal Society workparty to work here was taken in 1991

Mill Green Bridge is now reopened to canal traffic