In this video, we visit the village of Renishaw in North East Derbyshire. A village once bustling with industry, railways and even a canal.
Renishaw is a place we are familiar with having done videos previous on it's historic canals and disused railways. However we are usually either passing through, starting or finishing other explores.
We start by looking at the Great Central Railway (GCR) also known as the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway - or even LNER (London & North Eastern Railway) at various stages in history. The GCR mainline between London, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester passed through Renishaw - with it's own station until 1963. Known as Eckington & Renishaw until 1950, all now gone - but we can find evidence scattered around the area.
Close by we also had the Midland Railway, which also had it's own station - also known as Eckington & Renishaw, just to make things clear :)
This closed in the 1950s and nothing remains on the bridge by what is now Renishaw Golf Course. We can however see an old goods shed, now part of an industrial yard.
The Chesterfield Canal - disused for the time being - ran through renishaw, linking it's many industrial stop offs. This is subject to full restoration, but for the meantime we can walk along the abandoned canal cutting. This takes us past our first colliery (Renishaw Station Pit) and on to the old Renishaw Foundry or Renishaw Ironworks. Once a formidable beating heart of production - but all that remains is a housing estate with industrial related names. A network of railway and tramways worm their way around the foundry joining both the Midland Railway and GCR.
Just to the South East over the River Rother was the Renishaw Park Colliery - closed in 1989. This also had joining railway lines from both the Midland and GCR.
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