Britain's official guide to canals, rivers and lakes

Sunday 7th September 2008

Places to go near Chesterfield

The wooded valleys and rugged hills of Derbyshire make the county an attraction in its own right. Canal and history buffs will find much to interest them at Whaley Bridge and Bugsworth Basin continues to draw an appreciative crowd after its grand re-opening in 2005.

Local attractions

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Sheffield is the terminus of the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation, which extends some 43 miles from the River …

  • Leisure attraction

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is a steel working site with a very long history, with evidence dating back to pre-13th …

  • Museum

There were once about 2000 roundhouses in the country, which were locomotive engine sheds and big enough to turn …

  • Historic building

Opened in 1994, Chesterfield Museum is a testament to the town's long and important social and industrial history, …

  • Museum

Kelham Island Museum is a living and working Museum set on an island in the River Don near the centre of Sheffield. …

  • Museum

This former alehouse now houses an exhibition of 17th Century furniture, local itinerant exhibitions and shows a …

  • Museum

It may be the largest church in Derbyshire, but St. Mary's and All Saints Church is actually famed for its crooked …

  • Historic building

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