CHESTERFIELD | The most underrated town in the UK?
CHESTERFIELD | The most underrated town in the UK?
Gimbal Walk TV visits Chesterfield, Derbyshire - a town with a crooked spire close to Sheffield and Derby, to see if this really is the most underrated UK town.
Chesterfield is a town we have visited before and we have decided to travel back to this market town close to Sheffield and see what's here and what the town has to offer.
Best known for the church with the crooked spire, Chesterfield is a town that I think has so much more to offer whether that's the magnificent town hall, the old historic buildings scattered throughout the town, the winding wheel theatre, the shops, the pubs, the market and market hall and more.
The thing I find with Chesterfield is that if you mention it to locals, many of them will have a bit of a moan about the town centre, and people from outside the town will tell me that they don't really know that much about the place. Chesterfield is perhaps best known for the crooked spire of its Church of Saint Mary and All Saints and is why the local football team is known as The Spireites.
So let's have a walking tour around Chesterfield Town Centre and take a look at what's here, and what Chesterfield has within it's town centre.
Visit Chesterfield for a great day out or to stay. Brilliantly located in the centre of the UK with superb road, rail and air links, the town is famous for its 800 year-old open air market and the unique and unusual 'Crooked Spire' Church.
Whether it's a town or village experience, contemporary or traditional housing, buying or renting, living in Chesterfield and the surrounding area is affordable and offers something for everyone. With friendly and welcoming communities it's a safe place to live and bring up a family.
Chesterfield is in The Midlands and Sheffield is in the North. If you travel from Chesterfield to Sheffield on the dual carriageway there is a brow on the hill where the watershed divides either north or south.
Chesterfield in Derbyshire is a town of great character with a history of significance way beyond our immediate area.
Chesterfield has a fabulous offer for businesses, residents and visitors alike. Chesterfield is far more than a historic market town in Derbyshire with an iconic Crooked Spire.
Chesterfield is a market town and unparished area in the Borough of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, 24 miles north of Derby and 11 miles south of Sheffield at the confluence of the River Rother and River Hipper.
► LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!
Subscribe to our channel here ????????
► MORE VIDEOS FROM GIMBAL WALK TV
Sheffield Yorkshire ????????
Whitby ????????
Llandudno Wales ????????
Skegness ????????
► SUPPORT ME ❤️
Please support the channel so I can make better videos!
You can donate here ????????
► GIMBAL WALK TV SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Group ????????
Facebook Page ????????
Twitter ????????
Instagram ????????
Youtube ????????
► THE VIDEO AND CAMERA EQUIPMENT AND GEAR I USE
The video gear I use to film ????????
#chesterfield #derbyshire
CLOWNE: Bolsover Parish #15 of 16
Mentioned in the Domesday Book as “Clune”, this one’s name is derived from the Celtic word “Clun” for a river, and in Harlesthorpe which forms a part of the town here, there is a street called Clune Street which has a playing field name after it – both of which allude to the former name of the place.
In the 17th century the was a rural farming community. Some buildings still stand from this date, notably the Anchor Inn and Sheridon's Yard. When the plague struck in 1586 and 1606, victims were buried away from the village at Monument Field or Plague Field – the same field which was mentioned in the Barlborough episode, giving its name to the Monnies Trail
Most of its amenities are clustered together around a pretty tight town centre. Recently, some regeneration of the town centre has taken place including the opening of a large Tesco supermarket, a Wilko store and Aldi supermarket. The tesco store also has a petrol station as well.
Two railway stations served the town. Since their closure, the nearest operational station is Creswell, on the Robin Hood line between Worksop and Nottingham via Mansfield. But what of those former stations? Well, you may not be able to travel on trains here anymore but you can certainly see where these stations were and where the railway line was.
A thirty minute introduction then to one of Bolsover’s biggest – this is CLOWNE.
****
My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the district of Bolsover. There are 16. Here's the FIFTEENTH one – Clowne.
#Clowne, #Barlborough, #SouthgateColliery, #Greenway, #Bournes, #Station, #HarlesthorpeDam, #Chesterfield, #Worksop, #Derbyshire, #Bolsover, #HeritageSchool, #Parish,
Cross:
Zoopla:
Demographics:
Co-Op:
War memorial:
Clowne Parish Council:
Shawlands Surgery:
The Arc:
Southgate Colliery:
Harlesthorpe Dam:
Clowne and Barlborough Station:
By Phil Sangwell from United Kingdom - Clowne & Barlborough LM station 1951, CC BY 2.0,
Old School:
By Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0,
Some of the following music tracks may appear in this video:
Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
The Keyhouse - Voices (H. Flunder)
The Keyhouse - Circles (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - Sun (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “Angels” (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “C Song” (H. Flunder)
I have me a Facebook page too!
Come and join The Village People! (Subscribers only!)
Please consider buying me a coffee to support the channel! The more I get the faster I'll get to your parish!
Disused Railway Station Walkaround - Clowne & Barlborough, Derbyshire
Disused Railway Station Walkaround - Clowne & Barlborough, Derbyshire
This is a walkaround of the site of the former Midland station in Clowne.
The Clowne Branch of the Midland Railway opened in 1888 and saw trains stop between Mansfield and Chesterfield. The Clowne Branch itself runs from Cresswell to Staveley/Barrow Hill.
The station opened in 1888, called Clown. With no 'e'.
In 1938, the London Midland and Scottish railway renamed the station to Clown & Barlborough. The e was not added to Clown until 1951.
Sadly passenger services were on the decline in the town and ceased a few years later in 1954.
A few special trains called after this point, but only freight traffic was seen after this.
Freight traffic stopped in 1992 and the lines are now removed.
Incidentally, right next door can be found Clowne's other station on the neighbouring Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) - known at it's closure as Clowne South. This is also now closed.
These days the Clowne branch through Clowne is well used as a recreational trail - the Clowne Greenway.
***Wobbly Runner***
Please give the video a like and hit subscribe.
My channel was set up in 2020 mainly to feature my running adventures. I planned to film and showcase the days out and destinations my running travels took me. Mainly the Peak District and the sights and marvels of Sheffield and the surrounding regions.
However due to Covid restrictions, I found a new interest in researching and exploring old abandoned places - railway lines, canal, woodland, parks to name a few.
So the videos you'll find will be mainly be of those things. Of course, where possible I'll be running to my destination.
Facebook Page -
Instagram -
Discover the secrets of Largest Town in the UK , Chesterfield , England
Discover the secrets of Largest Town in the UK , Chesterfield , England
North Derbyshire’s largest market town is perhaps most famous for the distinctive Crooked Spire that dominates its skyline.
Stories abound as to why it twisted, but its unusual shape is thought to have been triggered by green timber covered with heavy lead tiles. Whatever the truth, the base of the spire of the Parish Church of St Mary’s and All Saints is a great place to get a panoramic view across the town and beyond.
Don’t forget to hit the like button if you enjoyed the video.
► Subscription link:
► Email address (business inquiries only):
lovelezchannel@gmail.com
I would love for you to join in the discussions on my channel by subscribing and hitting the notification bell – Much appreciated!
► WATCH NEXT:
4 English countryside:
4 SUNSET lovers:
Skylark Bird Singing:
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING
Let us know your feedback and any suggestions in the comments below.
FTC Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored video:)
Clowne & Creswell Derbyshire Lost Railway History - Part 2
Clowne & Creswell Derbyshire Lost Railway History
We're back on my own doorstep at Clowne & Creswell in Derbyshire to have another look around some of the disused railways in the area.
We take a closer look in more detail at the former Midland Railway Clowne Branch (now Clowne Greenway), the old Clowne & Barlborough station. Also to see is the Clowne South station and Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) disused railway towards Creswell.
We can find lost and buried former railway infrastructure such as telegraph poles, insulator, old point and signalling work and station platforms buried in the woods.
****Clowne Railways - part 1 -
****Clowne Branch -
****Clowne to Creswell, LDECR -
***Wobbly Runner***
Please give the video a like and hit subscribe.
My channel was set up in 2020 mainly to feature my running adventures. I planned to film and showcase the days out and destinations my running travels took me. Mainly the Peak District and the sights and marvels of Sheffield and the surrounding regions.
However due to Covid restrictions, I found a new interest in researching and exploring old abandoned places - railway lines, canal, woodland, parks to name a few.
So the videos you'll find will be mainly be of those things. Of course, where possible I'll be running to my destination.
Facebook Page -
Instagram -
Events in Bolsover | FREE Things to Do in Derbyshire
Situated just off Junction 29a on the M1, the Historic Market Town of Bolsover with it's beautiful Bolsover Castle, hosts some great FREE Family Events throughout the year. Linda at Limekiln Films takes you through the town, showing 5 Annual Events to which everyone is invited. There’s something for all the family and one more thing that's free PARKING:
Bolsover Gala, end of June 10am to 4.30pm at Hornscroft Park
Bolsover Food & Drink Festival, last weekend in July from 10am onwards.
Bolsover Parish Church Summer Flower Festival, mid July.
Bonfire & Fireworks beginning of November, Christmas Festival end of November, beginning of December, details from
Bolsover Lantern Parade end of November, beginning of December, details from
The Parish Church Winter Scarecrow Festival is on the same weekend as the Christmas Festival & Lantern Parade.
Drone photography by Andy Lovell
Presented by Linda Holmes
Follow Limekiln Films on
Music by Kelvin Towse
SOUTH ELMSALL: Wakefield Parish #23 of 30
It may surprise you to know that the land this one occupies was once coastal, but the town is most famous for its coal-mining past. It was the site of Frickley Colliery, which was one of the largest deep coal mines in the United Kingdom. A busy market town these days, it has easy access to both Doncaster and Wakefield.
The Warde-Aldams were an important local family that owned many properties both in and around this part of West Yorkshire. We’ve met the name before – they owned Hooton Pagnell Hall and Frickley Hall, both of which we met in the Doncaster series.
Frickley Athletic Football Club are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One East – the eighth tier of football in England. Ronnie Radford, scorer of the famous long-range goal for non-League Hereford United against First-Division Newcastle United in 1972, in one of the FA Cup's greatest giant-killing acts, was born here.
Frickley Country Park officially opened in September 2009, after a long period of land reclamation, environmental cleaning and landscaping of the former Frickley Colliery site was finished. In the town centre there is a colliery memorial which states on the stone that accompanies a winding wheel - out of these depths this village grows.
Welcome to SOUTH ELMSALL.
****
My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the City of Wakefield. There are 30. Here's the TWENTY-THIRD one – South Elmsall.
#SouthElmsall, #SouthKirkby, #FrickleyColliery, #FrickleyAthletic, #WestYorkshire, #ChrisWalker, #Station, #WardeAldam, #Wakefield, #Pontefract, #MarketHall, #Parish,
South Elmsall Town Council:
Demographics:
Zoopla:
GENUKI (South Kirkby):
St Mary the Virgin Church:
South Elmsall Market:
Frickley Colliery Cricket Club:
Warde-Aldam Hospital:
Frickley Colliery:
Pontefract Castle:
By Alexander Keirincx - Art UK, Public Domain,
South Elmsall Quarry:
Chris Walker:
Some of the following music tracks may appear in this video:
Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
The Keyhouse - Voices (H. Flunder)
The Keyhouse - Circles (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - Sun (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “Angels” (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “C Song” (H. Flunder)
I have me a Facebook page too!
Come and join The Village People! (Subscribers only!)
Please consider buying me a coffee to support the channel! The more I get the faster I'll get to your parish!
AULT HUCKNALL: Bolsover Parish #10 of 16
Welcome to one of rural England's most charming chunks of land. This one has more than a few bits to tell us about life in the heart of Derbyshire, about how life was in Elizabethan times, and how life was for the rich and the powerful. In this case, the woman with the power was the second richest person in the UK behind Queen Elizabeth I - Bess of Hardwick.
A lot of these lands belonged to the Hardwick Estate, a lot of them still do. There are seven settlements in this parish, and a whole lot of National Trust land, some of which is rightly a conservation area. Funnily enough though, its sparse population of less than 1,100 people mostly live in the two settlements that have nothing to do with Hardwick Hall.
They are Bramley Vale and Doe Lea, both of which are mining areas which are something of an anomaly really compared to the rest of the parish. You see, generally this area gives you tiny farmsteads like Astwith and Hardstoft and Rowthorne - which are a million miles away from anything to do with mining.
Then of course, there's Hardwick Hall itself, built with as many windows as Bess of Hardwick deemed possible so she could admire her kingdom, which included two massive lakes and the River Doe Lea. An impressive structure for all to see, Hardwick Hall is famed for many things including a collection of embroideries and even a scene or two in Harry Potter!
Oh and is the main village really the smallest village in England? It would claim to be. This is AULT HUCKNALL.
****
My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the district of Bolsover. There are 16. Here's the TENTH one – Ault Hucknall.
#AultHucknall, #HardwickHall, #BessofHardwick, #RiverDoeLea, #BramleyVale, #A617, #Colliery, #StainsbyFestival, #Chesterfield, #Derbyshire, #Bolsover, #DoeLea, #Parish,
The Famous Shoulder:
Hardstoft Conservation Area:
Whitton Lodge:
Bustimes:
The Rowthorne Trail:
The Hardwick Inn:
Former Sunday School:
Demographics:
Stainsby Festival:
Stainsby Mill:
Zoopla:
Doe Lea Colliery:
Bramley Vale Drift Mines:
Ault Hucknall (name):
Rowthorne:
Doe Lea Resource Centre:
Rowthorne Lodge:
Hardwick Ponds:
Doe Lea Nature Reserve:
I have me a Facebook page too!
Come and join The Village People! (Subscribers only!)
Please consider buying me a coffee to support the channel! The more I get the faster I'll get to your parish!
Day out to Lindisfarne Holy Island
Day out to Lindisfarne Holy Island
When staying just up the coat on our recent holiday to Northumberland, we spent a day visiting Lindisfarne Holy Island.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Holy Island Tidal Causeway
03:15 Lindisfarne Priory
06:28 Lindisfarne Castle
07:08 Lime Works & Kilns
***Wobbly Runner***
Please give the video a like and hit subscribe.
My channel was set up in 2020 mainly to feature my running adventures. I planned to film and showcase the days out and destinations my running travels took me. Mainly the Peak District and the sights and marvels of Sheffield and the surrounding regions.
However due to Covid restrictions, I found a new interest in researching and exploring old abandoned places - railway lines, canal, woodland, parks to name a few.
So the videos you'll find will be mainly be of those things. Of course, where possible I'll be running to my destination.
Facebook Page -
Instagram -
Disused Railway Explore - Barlborough - LD&ECR Beighton Branch
Disused Railway Explore - LD&ECR Barlborough - Beighton Branch
We explore the disused LDECR (Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway) Beighton Branch between the M1 motorway at Barlborough and Sheffield Road at Renishaw, Derbyshire.
A short section that is a little off the beaten path, with minimal footpaths on the trackbeds compared to other sectoins of the line.
We look at a few old bridges and an old platelayers hut left for nature to take over.
The LD&ECR Beighton Branch closed in sections, with this section closing in 1967.
As well as the old LDECR, we also can see remains of the Cottam colliery and Hazels Brickworks nearby, which had links to the main line. Remains of the old engine house can be found in a field close to the line.
00:00 Intro
00:33 - LDECR
03:25 - Disused Bridge
08:05 - Abandoned Hut
16:17 - Cottam Colliery Engine House
***Wobbly Runner***
Please give the video a like and hit subscribe.
My channel was set up in 2020 mainly to feature my running adventures. I planned to film and showcase the days out and destinations my running travels took me. Mainly the Peak District and the sights and marvels of Sheffield and the surrounding regions.
However due to Covid restrictions, I found a new interest in researching and exploring old abandoned places - railway lines, canal, woodland, parks to name a few.
So the videos you'll find will be mainly be of those things. Of course, where possible I'll be running to my destination.
Facebook Page -
Instagram -
NOTTON: Wakefield Parish #7 of 30
To one of Wakefield's smaller villages we go today and it's one with a modest 982 population that seems content to sit as it is between the South Yorkshire town of Royston to the South and the much larger Wakefield city to the North, just chilling without wishing to change what it is or what it stands for any time soon, or at least that is the impression I got from the locals. They're happy with the village just the way it is.
Well, why not? This is a lovely corner of Wakefield, one of the most Southerly within both West Yorkshire and the city boundaries, separated only from South Yorkshire by around a mile of open countryside. The village is surrounded pretty much on all sides by agricultural lands, some of which is used by local farms, and the rest used as either a Nature Reserve or as apart of the many woodland trails and walking routes you'll find here.
The centre of the village boasts a huge village green with an impressive village hall and a noticeboard that's full of information about the parish, including a very good map which I take full advantage of. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this parish is just how many things historically depended on the land and the surrounding area this covers. Take for instance the many mills and the railways and the canal, all of which through time were important here.
The railway is now less important and some of it is not even a railway anymore. In fact, where it used to be is now a part of that good channel favourite, the Trans Pennine Trail. The canal as we saw in Walton is disused and dried up but it doesn't make it any less interesting to look at once again.
This is a village whose name means Wether Sheep Farm, but we know it today as NOTTON.
****
My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the City of Wakefield. There are 30. Here's the SEVENTH one – Walton.
#Notton, #OldRoyston, #BarnsleyCanal, #Royston, #WestYorkshire, #TPT, #Chevet, #Applehaigh, #Wakefield, #CricketClub, #Parish,
Bustimes:
Demographics:
Zoopla:
Notton Parish Council:
I have me a Facebook page too!
Come and join The Village People! (Subscribers only!)
Please consider buying me a coffee to support the channel! The more I get the faster I'll get to your parish!
BARLOW: North East Derbyshire Parish #16 of 24
Here's a gorgeous little place between Chesterfield and Dronfield which oozes rural charm and that quaintness that we've come to expect from a village in the North East Derbyshire countryside. This place has more than a few things to make you want to stay a while, and why not? The views around here are nothing short of spectacular and the locals aren't bad either!
No way I could cover it all, I've stuck in this one to the main settlements which are laid out along the B6051. The oldest part of the village in the South has things such as the church of St Lawrence - a key building and linked to everything else in this parish in some way shape or form. Inside there's the remains of Richard Barley, a man who was married to Bess of Hardwick!
Bess of Hardwick use to own the building we see at the every end, located high up in the hills overlooking some of that wonderful countryside (she did like a view, remember Hardwick Hall!) The South of the village also contains the lovely Peacock Inn, an old water pump, loads of little historical bits and bobs like the ancient pinfold, and even a sundial in the churchyard.
The North, two areas known as Crowhole and Commonside, are a little newer and a little different too. Coal mining was a thing out here, not that you'd be able to tell nowadays because there's pretty much no trace of it, but look closely at the style of housing and you'll see a certain similarity to some terraces we've seen in the past. Some of those houses are now holiday lets!
Beautiful isn't a word I use a lot, but it perfectly describes the parish of BARLOW.
****
My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the district of North East Derbyshire. There are 24. Here's the SIXTEENTH one - Barlow.
#Barlow, #Crowhole, #LeeBridge, #BessofHardwick, #BarlowWoodseatsHall, #Fishery, #Dronfield, #NorthEastDerbyshire, #CoalMining, #Barley, #WellDressing, #Commonside, #Pinfold, #Derbyshire, #Parish,
Barlow and Cutthorpe Methodist Church:
Demographics:
Zoopla:
Reap and Sow Rural Spirits:
Sundial:
Bustimes:
William Owtram:
By Unknown author - "Two Dissertations on Sacrifices: The First On All the Sacrifices of the Jews ..." By William Owtram" @ Public Domain,
The Tickled Trout:
Barlow Parish Council:
General village info:
Bess of Hardwick connection:
Bernie Clifton:
St Lawrence:
Barlow Carnival:
Pinfold:
Lee Bridge over Barlow Brook:
Barlow Trout Fisheries:
Some of the following music tracks may appear in this video:
Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
The Keyhouse - Voices (H. Flunder)
The Keyhouse - Circles (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - Sun (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “Angels” (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “C Song” (H. Flunder)
I have me a Facebook page too!
Come and join The Village People! (Subscribers only!)
Please consider buying me a coffee to support the channel! The more I get the faster I'll get to your parish!
Exploring Clowne's twin abandoned railway stations - disused closed -Chesterfield Bolsover Sheffield
The small town of Clowne near Chesterfield once boasted two railway stations. Both were located next door to each other on adjacent railways.
Clowne and Barlborough was opened by the Midland Railway in 1888 and lasted until 1962, although regular passenger services ceased in 1954. Clowne South was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway in 1897, shutting in 1964 with scheduled services finishing in 1939.
Today the trackbeds have been turned in a Greenway and a road but there are some relics left.
Filmed January 14th 2023
#ClowneAndBarlborough #ClowneSouth #disusedstation
Barlborough 4K Scenic Drive - Clowne, Barlborough, Mosborough - Derbyshire, Sheffield - DJI Pocket 2
Filmed in 4K. Trying something different with this driving video, with a twilight run towards Sheffield, as the light fades. This was recorded using a DJI Pocket 2 camera, and I wanted to test how well the camera coped with the failing light. Whilst not as good as filming on a bright sunny day, the camera seemed to cope well with the conditions. This was filmed around 4.30pm on a January afternoon, around 30 minutes before full darkness.
We begin on the heading northwards into the North Derbyshire village of Clowne. We then drive through the old road through Barlborough, avoiding the junction with the M1, and proceed into the outskirts of Sheffield, through Mosborough to Crystal Peaks.
The driving was filmed in January 2023. There's no commentary, but occasional captions provide locations for the journey. Please forgive the occasional loud cough as I recover from a cold.
If you enjoy this film, please like and subscribe.
#scenicdrive
#djipocket2
#scenicdrives
What is happening at this disused railway station in Clowne?
A short video to see what has been happening on the site of the Clowne South railway station. A disused abandoned site for many years until recently when site clearance began.
But what is happening at the site? Is it in the process of a restoration project?
The station was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on its Beighton Branch in March 1897 as Clown. It was closed to regular timetabled passenger traffic in September 1939 although Summer Weekend excursions continued until 1964.
On to of the old trackbed is the booking hall. . The cutting through which the Clowne South line ran has been infilled and lies buried under the road that leads to Tesco and the new roundabout. The station building was once a bank, but is now a beauty shop.
Derbyshire Drive: Clowne to South Normanton
Join Derby Church Net travelling around the county
Clowne Disused Railway Station Restoration Update
We at the disused Clowne Railway Station near Bolsover today to get a restoration update.
The old Clowne South, LNER, or LDECR station as it is also known has been disused since the 1960s. Although the old booking office is still in use as business premises, the tunnel, platforms, trackbed and surrounding area have been fenced off and overgrown for many, many years.
That is until last year when the Clowne Local History Society embarked on their latest project to turn the old station site into a usable piece of land to commerorate the old station.
Since my video in October when I reported that the old station site had been cleared, we now see some mock up railway track emerging from the tunnel entrance. Where possible sleepers, rails and ballast have been recovered from the local area.
The station was opened in March 1897 as Clown, by the Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway on the company's Beighton Branch between Langwith and Sheffield. The station building booking office was situated on top of the tracks with ramps to the platforms either side. In 1939 before WW2, passenger serivces over the line ceased leaving the stations existence in question. Before this time the LD&ECR was taken over by the Great Central Railway.
In 1951 the station was renamed Clowne South to distinguish is from it's neighbour on the MIdland Railway - Clowne & Barlborough station. Which sat only a few yards away.
The line and station remained open for excursions and freight traffic before 1964 when the station was closed completely.
The station was eroded. Local development erased the surrounding infrastructure piece by piece until the station site and tunnel entrance was left overgrown and a hotspot for anti-social behaviour. The station building remained in use thanks to it's street frontage and would later become a bank, bridal shop, photography shop and most recently a beauty salon. The station masters house sits aside the station and is now a business centre.
Buy me a coffee -
Facebook -
Instagram -
June Update from Clowne LDECR Railway Station Restoration
We're back in Clowne Derbyshire for an update on the Station Restoration of the former LDECR station - Clowne South.
Since our last visit the team have taken delivery of a batch of old railway ballast from a local disused colliery railway line. This has been laid around the small section of track under the tunnel portal at the end of where the platforms once started.
Excavation has been ongoing to level off the earth piled up when the area was landsaped after closure.
The station was opened in March 1897 as Clown, by the Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway on the company's Beighton Branch between Langwith and Sheffield. The station building booking office was situated on top of the tracks with ramps to the platforms either side. In 1939 before WW2, passenger serivces over the line ceased leaving the stations existence in question. Before this time the LD&ECR was taken over by the Great Central Railway.
In 1951 the station was renamed Clowne South to distinguish is from it's neighbour on the MIdland Railway - Clowne & Barlborough station. Which sat only a few yards away.
The line and station remained open for excursions and freight traffic before 1964 when the station was closed completely.
The station was eroded. Local development erased the surrounding infrastructure piece by piece until the station site and tunnel entrance was left overgrown and a hotspot for anti-social behaviour. The station building remained in use thanks to it's street frontage and would later become a bank, bridal shop, photography shop and most recently a beauty salon. The station masters house sits aside the station and is now a business centre.
Buy me a coffee -
Facebook -
Instagram -
Chesterfield Lost Railways - Horns Bridge and the LD&ECR
Welcome to episode 2 of Chestefield's Lost Railways. We're picking up where we left off at Horns Bridge to follow the Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) through Chesterfield to it's terminus at Chesterfield Market Place Station.
Make sure you watch part 1 about the Great Central Railway in Chesterfield -
Opening in 1897, the LDECR was the third railway company to arrive in Chesterfield after the Midland Railway and the GCR. Where now sits the busy Hornsbridge Island roundabout once stood the Horns Bridge viaduct. A mixture of seven brick arches and four girder spans. The LDECR dwarfed the lower level Midland and Great Central lines. That must have been a grand entrance to the town for travellers.
The line closed in the 1950s and in 1960 the demolition of the viaduct began with cranes lifting off the girder sections. Some arches survived longer than others and left this strange sight of the last arch still towered over the landscape until that was also finally demolished to make way for the new road system in the 1980s.
From here, the line swept south of the town centre on a sizeable embankment, crossing the Boythorpe Viaduct and Brampton Branch of the Midland Railway. It swung across Park Road into the Chesterfield Market Place station. Nothing remains of the station now except the former station hotel from 1899 - The Portland Hotel which is now a Wetherspoons pub and hotel.
Did you know that Chesterfield was never the intended final destination for the LDECR. The reference to Lancashire in the company title is a little out of context geographically to where the line actually ended up serving. But their initial plans were to extend west as far Warrington and the Manchester Ship Canal. That didn’t get anywhere near happening except for an outline of a rather optimistic route across the Peak District. Similarly to the East, the line didn’t make it to it’s proposed desination of Sutton on Sea, rather reaching just short of Lincoln at Pyewipe junction. We refer to the LD&ECR, but it’s time under that company was actually short lived – less than a decade as the railway was absorbed into the Great Central railway in 1907.
Buy me a coffee -
Facebook -
Instagram -
#chesterfeld #ldecr