Bridge across nothing
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Bridge across nothing
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 4 Oct 2015
Numbered 41B, this carries the Chesterfield Canal towpath across what was the mouth of the branch to Lady Lee. This served limestone quarries and limekilns, and was disused by the early 20th century although maps show that it continued in water until around 1960, possibly acting as a feeder from the River Ryton. This end of the branch had been ploughed out by the 1960s, and all immediate trace finally obliterated by the construction of the Worksop bypass in the 1980s. It's surprising that such a modern bridge exists when its function had disappeared so long ago.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.311052
Longitude
-1.140716