Disused Canal - Norbriggs Cutting Abandoned Canal Section on the Chesterfield Canal

Disused Canal - Norbriggs Cutting Abandoned Canal Section on the Chesterfield Canal

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Another former canal arm off the Chesterfield Canal. This time closer to the Chesterfield end. The Norbriggs Cutting left the main canal route between Renishaw and Staveley at the 6 mile post. It ran for around 1 mile before terminating at a wharf on what is now the main Chestefield to Worksop road (A619) at Norbriggs.

The canal was opened at some stage between 1775 and 1777, just before the the main canal to Chesterfield has opened.

As we found, the route of the canal is still evident, but well overgrown. In some areas, the canal cutting has been reclaimed by farming and as an access to neighbouring houses. The Cuckoo Way trail that follows the towpath all the way to the River Trent is signposted from where the wharf once stood

At the Norbriggs end of the canal was one of the earliest examples of a railway in Derbyshire - known as a Newcastle Rail Road (or Newcastle Raile Way as it was also known). This horse drawn railway ran on wooden rails and connected the canal to nearby colliery workings and helped bring coal traffic to the canal. This railway was disbanded in the 1790s.


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