Aims
The Trust has over 1000 members, and its aims include
- the promotion of the restoration and development of the Chesterfield Canal
- campaigning for the construction of the Rother Link which would join the Chesterfield Canal to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. This was first proposed by the Chesterfield Canal Society in 1995, and would involve the canalisation of 8 miles (13 km) of the River Rother from Killamarsh to the River Don at Rotherham.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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