Cuckoo Way - Bracebridge Pumping Station Traditional Cache
La Lunatica: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Suzanne
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Cuckoo Way - Bracebridge Pumping Station
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Welcome to another cache along the Cuckoo Way
This cache is placed near the Bracebridge Pumping station (no longer active).
This landmark sewage pumping station was built in 1881 in an Italian Romanesque style. It is of brick and ashlar with gault and blue brick dressings and a hipped slate roof. It is a tall single storey structure with tall round headed iron frame casement windows. The interior has a gallery on cast iron columns and matching spiral staircase. Separate from the main building is the chimney of three stages, also decorated with blue brick and a moulded eaves band.
The steam-driven beam-engine was powered by coal mined from Shireoaks.
This is in a semi-urban area so please be careful when retrieving and replacing the cache
The Chesterfield Canal is widely recognised as one of the most beautiful and varied waterways in England. It runs for 46 miles from the River Trent to the middle of Chesterfield, linking Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Every yard of the canal can be walked on the towpath known as The Cuckoo Way.
It goes through tranquil countryside where scarcely a house can be seen; has some of the earliest staircase locks ever built (240 years ago); is hugely popular with walkers; has some of the best canal fishing in the country and ends up at what will be the £310 million Waterside development in Chesterfield.
Quote from a recent visiting boater "Crew who had not seen the Turnerwood and Thorpe flights before were absolutely delighted with their location, beauty, tradition and interest. This is one of the best stretches of canal anywhere in the UK."
Since 1989, 12 miles of the canal have been restored along with 36 locks and 11 bridges; 2 new marinas have been built. The latest section was opened early in 2012 with the flooding of the new Staveley Town Basin.
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