About the route A fi gure-of-eight walk with a watery theme taking in three different waterways: the controlled , the revitalised Chesterfi eld Canal and the mighty . Trent Vale Walk Route The walk can be conveniently split into two shorter walks of 2.5 miles each. Easy walking on fi eld paths and paths on fl oodbanks and a canal towpath. Walk Checklist: Misterton A150 and Start point/parking A631A666331 A631 Roadside, junction Station Road and Soss Lane. West Stockwith Circular

Distance Main route approximately 5 miles (8 kms). Alternative route approximately 2.5 miles (4 kms).

Duration A156

2.5 - 3 hours + stops. A57

Stiles and gates AA1 Stiles.

Refreshments

Public Houses in West Stockwith and Misterton. A46

Public Transport By bus: Stagecoach No 97 -Misterton- Gainsborough; NottsBus No 83/84 Worksop- Misterton-Gainsborough. A177

A1 OS Grid Reference Walk starts at SK775947 – Map OS Explorer 280 The dots show the start points and OS Landranger 112. of all our 20 walk routes. Visit our website for more info.

West Stockwith Canal Basin.

Start Point: Roadside, junction Station Road and Soss Lane Main Route Length: Approximately 5 miles (8 kms) Alternative Route Length: Approximately 2.5 miles (4 kms) For more information, visit: Main Route Duration: 2.5 - 3 hours + stops www.trentvale.co.uk Route Type: Easy walking on fi eld paths fl oodbanks and a canal towpath Misterton and West Stockwith Circular O.S. 1:50 000 Sheet 121 Sheet 000 1:50 O.S. 1 Start. From the parking area take Soss West Stockwith is not in the Lane out of Misterton passing the former Domesday Book and could be a pumping stations (now private residences) slightly later settlement, although on the right at Misterton Soss – soss being it does appear as Wessockiv in 1139. The the Dutch for sluice. Soon after, turn left name ‘Stockwith’ is derived from the Old at a path junction for 70m, then right and English word ‘stoc’ meaning a village/ 2012 100022432. Perspectives, ©Next Landmark 100019843. Survey 2012, Ordnance rights, database and copyright ©Crown over a bridge crossing the River Idle. The farmstead and the Old Norse ‘wath’ tall chimneys of the pumping stations look meaning a ford/river crossing. The Idle impressive from here. Bridge in West Stockwith is a single span metal bridge with stone supports, dating from the Victorian era.

3 Turn right along Stockwith Road and over the Idle Bridge to gain the fl oodbank by the River Trent on the left. Continue on passing Stockwith Basin via a narrow bridge over the lock. Keep ahead on a bridleway to meet the Stockwith Road. Turn right along this crossing Basin Bridge then immediately left after the inn onto the towpath of the Chesterfi eld Canal – opened in 1777 and here jointly used as the Cuckoo Way and 5 At the bridge, go up the bank and onto . the B1403 and turn right along this road The Old Pump House is a Grade II 4 into Misterton. Keep right at T-junction listed building. Originally built in Follow the canal passing under a railway bridge and on to Misterton Low Lock. then right into Church Lane followed by 1828, there are two buildings built a footpath into All Saints Churchyard. mainly of brick with stone lintel and sills for the windows. The two chimneys are 80ft Leave the churchyard and turn left along high. There are two 12ft high fl ood gates A161 Haxey Road for 100m and take the with hand-operated winding gear to raise signposted path on right through gate and lower them. All other machinery has Swallow Bridge, Chesterfi eld Canal. to stile ahead. Turn left in fi eld to stile in been removed. There are pits and sockets corner then immediately over 2nd style which show that there would have been 2 The town of Misterton is and turn right. Keep to the hedgerow large water wheels. The access bridge over mentioned several times in the on right in this large fi eld to a stile in far the River Idle near the Old Pump House is Domesday Book of 1086 and corner. Cross next fi eld to a footbridge itself a Grade II listed building. Misterton Low Lock. has a church, meadow and woodland over a dyke then right and left in quick pasture. This implies it was already well succession into another large fi eld. For the shorter walks: Join or leave the 2 Now turn right along the fl oodbank established by this time. canal at this point from or returning to Here turn right onto a bridleway with beside the river and follow it for 1.3 kms The name ‘Misterton’ means a farmstead the starting point. the hedge on your left and go south to West Stockwith. As you near the end go or estate with a church. The current town past some commercial buildings to around the new pumping station; regain For the longer walk: Continue on passing church (All Saints) is a 13th century Grade reach Station Street. Turn left along this the fl oodbank followed by a fenced path Misterton Top Lock, Swallow Bridge (82) I listed building although it has been then left into Station Road and back to passing close by and under the archway and Wharf Bridge (81) then curving around subject to modifi cation and rebuilding the start point. of a house leading onto Main Street. the southern edge of Misterton to reach in subsequent centuries. Cooper’s Bridge. Thanks to Alex Staniforth for devising this walk.