Chesterfield Canal - Lady Lee Disused Canal Explore, Worksop

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

This is very well done considering the undergrowth. Like disused railways, it's always interesting to know that there was once a mode of transport that disappeared quite some time back. It was good that you managed to find the remains of that long gone canal wharf. Many thanks for this upload.

[@WobblyRunner]

👍🙂. Did you see my revisit video? I went back in winter once the undergrowth had died off

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

No, I'll have to check that one out.

[@tonynewton2250]

Another great video, thanks. Here's some info you don't appear to have; the Lady Lee branch was filled in by my wife's uncle (who shall remain nameless) when he farmed the land that it crossed. Date of infilling not known, but could have been late 50s, early 60s. His ownership didn't extend to the quarry which is why there are still visible remains there. One commenter mentions that the clay liner was not removed which is why the line of the cut can still be seen. Properly laid liners are so difficult to remove that they are usually left in place, testament to the skill and energy of the builders. It seems that there were plans to build a by-pass round Staveley in the early 60s which involved using the bed of the canal for some of the route, but it was abandoned because nobody could work out how to remove the puddled clay liner, and they couldn't build the road on it as it would always be waterlogged. The Cromford Canal is well worth a visit, heaps of fascinating history there.

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Tony, fascinating stuff. 👍 Thank god they didn't build over the canal in Staveley. Cromford Canal is on my list to do. In thinking Spring for that. Ps. Did you see my other Lady Lee video where I visited this winter one the vegetation had died back?

[@neildexter6362]

Fantastic videos, well done! I live in Worksop & I am also interested in the same things as you, as well as local history of Worksop. The Chesterfield Canal opened in 1777 & closed in 1961.

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Neil. Nice one 👍

[@moogdome2562]

What a great video. I lived in South Anston, and walked the canal with my dogs many a time. Rat city. The canal will. Have been named after, Lady Lee, when they renovated the canal. Lady Lee was Kenny Everett's ex-wife. There is a connection. Well done.

[@WobblyRunner]

Thank you 👍 I didn't know that

[@moogdome2562]

A pleasure. Keep up the good work. My father used to maintain, Lady Lees's garden. Thank you.@@WobblyRunner

[@TheThreeOfUs5553]

Brilliant video. I always wondered what remained of the quarry. Like I said on FB my Canal Maintenance Electric Bike is named Lady Lee after the Arm of the Canal.

[@WobblyRunner]

👍love hearing little anecdotes like that Graham. I'll keep a look out for the bike when I'm about the Chesterfield end.

[@danensis]

At 2:58 it looks as though the crop is greener where the canal ran, suggesting the subsoil may be different.

[@WobblyRunner]

I'd never noticed that before. You're spot on.

[@ralphdowns7056]

it's the clay liner left in the soil. The affect on the vegetation is common and a giveaway to the line of a filled in canal.

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Ralph. Good to know. 👍🙂

[@ralphdowns7056]

@@WobblyRunner May I add that at Sawmills on the Cromford Canal, the householders that back onto the canal have turned it into an allotment. While walking the canal I talked to one of them who said the soil became watelogged after heavy rain. The liner still works. I also recommend the Cromford Canal between Cromford and Ambergate. The autumn colour accross the valley is as good as it gets. Actually, the Derwent Valley Heritage Way between Ladybower and Derby is well worth the walk. There is a book on it, available from information centres.

[@WobblyRunner]

@@ralphdowns7056 thanks Ralph. Cromford canal has intriguing me for some time and hoping to visit soon. The heritage way too. Was hoping to cover the full length of that this summer but I think I'm running out of time. So many places to see and so little free time🙂

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

I had just finished working with a personal training client in my gym, switched on YT for a bit of exploring action, and this popped up, great timing!!! A wonderful piece of perseverance on this one, it's amazing what you can find when you keep plugging away. That is at the beginning of my next section, so @3:10 is that a good place to park? It looks like Stubbing Lane, the road that leads down to the rugby club.

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Seamus 👍. It was a fun one. Yeah that's a decent place to park. Though a few times I've been it has been full. On this occasion I just banged the car in the massive pub car park over the road as that's right on the towpath.

[@AlecPadley]

Lived in Rhodesia We called it Cross Cut and Lake was known as the Canyon behind is a stone wall loading platform

[@swigginstevesbargainbeerre1612]

Great channel dude. It's great to see the canal has been rest again, at least some areas. I remember my mum and dad taking me for walks down the chesterfield cannal when I was a kid in the 90s. I have also watched your other videos looking at the sections between kiveton and chesterfield. We used to walk along the canal from chesterfield to the roundhouse beer festival a few years ago. Ah memories. Keep up the good work, Swiggin Steve

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Swiggin Steve!!!

[@donson24td]

Do you know anything about the abandoned house further up the canal? It's got loads of abandoned vehicles on the land. I'm looking for more information about it but can't find anything other than on picture online...

[@WobblyRunner]

Ahhhh yes. I've heard lots of varying stories about it. From he's it's owned by a nice chap who is very approachable, to stories of people being chased away for looking in. It is intruiging though.Personally, I've never seen activity there. I'd have to assume from the state of the building that surely nobody is residing in that.

[@donson24td]

@@WobblyRunner I'm from thurcroft work in Worksop and often walk the canal from shireroaks to Worksop as it's a nice place to walk, me and the wife decided to go the other way for once and it's a lot nicer walk... Anyway long story short we passed the house, has no roof now. Me being curious I was looking on the net until 1.30 this morning from about 9 and couldn't find anything so searched on KZbin and found you did the canal walk so I'm now watching through them 🙈 I also didn't think anything of that bridge, it's nice to actually know it once was there to serve a purpose.

[@WobblyRunner]

@@donson24td 👍 it's a fantastic walk down there isn't it. I love that section through Turnerwood. Enjoy the videos 🙂

[@danielsedgwick5476]

Very interesting…

[@WobblyRunner]

Cheers Daniel

[@duncanrs]

always wondered what that bridge was for

[@WobblyRunner]

Until recently I assumed it was to slow down cyclists. 😄

[@moogdome2562]

They took stone from Anston, and shipped it to London on the Chesterfield Canal, to build, the houses of parliament.

[@moogdome2562]

Not many people are aware, that the Actor, Rodger Moore lived on Lindrick Dale for some time. It was a beautiful house, set back against some trees, with two massive lakes. Since then, sadly, the house was pulled down, and now stands an ugly modern house, with a helicopter landing pad, the last time I walked by, a few years ago.

[@WobblyRunner]

No way. I thought you were pulling my leg till I looked it up online 😄. I'm suprised Worksop haven't named the hospital or a wetherspoons after him.

[@moogdome2562]

No, my friend. I'd never spread misleading rumours. I know he had a love affair with a Lady singer, and that's why probably he lived there, moving from London. It was kind of a secret, as for Lady Lee. Wish they'd never knocked the house down. What an idle lovely, tucked away place to live. I don't know if you know, but Donald Pleasance the actor, was born in Worksop?, around 1909. His father was a railway station manager, they moved to Lincoln, then, Swinton Rotherham. Donald's brother lived in Consbrough Doncaster, with the castle, thanks.@@WobblyRunner