Another long break between posts. Will catch up with a few highlights and some explanation of the interruption at some point. Then try and blog briefly but regularly!!
Last time we had just arrived in Sheffield Basin/ Victoria Quays. We spent a week there. Good times and a great city.
Recommended for great location, lovely organic beers and ciders, occasional live music and a very warm welcome :)
Leaving Sheffield headed back up the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, across to Ghoole and then on down to Keadby to go out on the tidal Trent ...Stopping at Thorne and Crowle on the way.
At the church in Crowle I met a young couple planning to marry in a couple of weeks, visiting with her parents making an anniversary visit to the church where they had married 40 years earlier. Random and nice :)
Out onto the tidal Trent from Keadby at 06.30 a.m. and down to West Stockwith,
the start of the Chesterfield Canal. We moored in the basin at West Stockwith for a couple of days enjoying the amazing light, the walks and Sunday dinner in the local pub.
Then on, a round trip, up and down the Chesterfield Canal
The Festival of Flowers at Misterton ..... the floral displays were done by children from local schools based on childrens' books.
Sunset
My first tunnel Drakeholes ..... very, very short!! Although video is way too long! An insight into canal speed! Advice is don't bother watching it all!!
Bracebridge Pumping Station
Kiveton Park, at the top of the Chesterfield. The tunnel connecting it to Chesterfield is long since collapsed.
Picking sloes ....
Other highlights of the Chesterfield Canal were Retford, a much improved and charming market town with a great market.
Worksop where we entertained locals and visitors from the U.S. as we went through the locks! Despite its' reputation we met nothing but interested and charming gongoozlers!
Hayton where the moorings were small but empty on the edge of the village and we discovered a library in the phone box and and a Norman Church with some interesting gravestones.
Beautiful and quiet countryside for miles around Ranby.
Loved the Chesterfield but onwards .... back on the Trent, via West Stockwith
via Gainsborough and on to ......
Torksey Lock opens on to the Fossdyke Navigation to Lincoln and beyond to the River Witham and Boston. That's for next time and another catch up! :)
1 comment:
Hi there, Misterton is the village next to mine and Torksey is the village next to my parents! Where are you guys now? Xx
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