Chesterfield - overnight moorings advice please

[Scholar Gypsy]

I'd be grateful for any thoughts on good places to stop for the night on the Chesterfield.

 

I hope to do the whole canal, in a reasonably leisurely way. I prefer to stop overnight in out of the way places, and do shopping, emptying the loos etc during the day.

 

Current plans are (starting on 2nd August)

 

Sunday - lock in at West Stockwith early afternoon, so probably stay the night there

Monday - somewhere around Retford? Forest locks maybe?

Tuesday - Kiveton Park

Wednesday - an excursion to somewhere (Mr Straw's house looks quite fun, though we will have bikes on board?) and then back down towards Retford. Osberton Hall perhaps?

Thursday - stop a couple of hours short of West Stockwith. Drakeholes? Wiseton?

Friday - get to West Stockwith in time for the flood (at 1200), and then overnight in Lincoln.

 

Canalplan says its 31 miles and 46 locks each way, which they estimate at 20 hours. I am hoping that the various flights & staircases would be rather faster than that, hence easily doable in four full days plus bits on Sunday and Friday.

 

Many thanks in advance

 

[subsequent plans are

Saturday - Kyme Eau and maybe an excursion to Sleaford

Sunday - Witham navigable drains

Monday - Boston, in readiness for

Tuesday - to Wisbech via the Wash.

Wednesday - Whittlesea

Thursday - Salters Lode

Friday - Ely]

[Suzie_q]

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[DHutch]

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[Scholar Gypsy]

Oops, thanks. Suggest these three posts can now be deleted!