Thanks for the tour. I was born in Marsh Lane and spent many happy hours at the sports field, down Soss Lane, or walking the canal banks and have many fond memories of the Methodist Chapel which I attended from 2 years of age. Now in New Zealand, the last of my family left the Misterton area earlier this year (2024). It was a brilliant place to grow up.
Forty or so years ago the Aegir Cycling Club from Gainsborough used to do the odd cross country event at Misterton near the locks but since then I've barely passed through the village. Apart from Newell's Terrace and the Fire Station I barely recognise anything.
I live on Carr Lane in the village moved here from that there Rotherham four years ago which I still commute to for work and I can honestly say the folks in Misterton are great always loved this area since my teens as I cycled here regularly and all the other areas with Rotherham wheelers cycling club now I live here and it’s fab 👍
Pedatically, Misterton Soss or Sass as it was originally called was the Lock on the River Idle. The lock on the Idle was originally constructed during the Dutch drainage in the 17th Century. The Pumping Engines do not pump the water into the River Idle but to move the water further along the Mother Drain to its outfall into the River Trent.
Not what I found. I found numerous sources telling me it moved water "up" from the low levels to the higher ones. Nothing about moving it along. The outfall was cited as the Idle
@@TheVillageIdiot You can see the continuation o the Mother Drain to the River Trent in this map of 1885 - maps.nls.uk/view/101587892#zoom=4&lat=4218&lon=2107&layers=BT
@@angust11 I'm not disputing that the drain continues past the Soss. What I'm getting at is the functionality, i.e. pumping water "up" as opposed to along
@@TheVillageIdiot Sorry to be a pain - From the Journal of the Agricultural Society of England 1851 - Page 325 - "The Soss works of drainage have two engines of 40 horsepower each, draining a district of about 6000 acres. The engines drive two large scoop wheels capable of lifting the water up to 12 feet: the outfall is the river Trent at Stockwith."
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Thanks for the tour. I was born in Marsh Lane and spent many happy hours at the sports field, down Soss Lane, or walking the canal banks and have many fond memories of the Methodist Chapel which I attended from 2 years of age. Now in New Zealand, the last of my family left the Misterton area earlier this year (2024). It was a brilliant place to grow up.
Forty or so years ago the Aegir Cycling Club from Gainsborough used to do the odd cross country event at Misterton near the locks but since then I've barely passed through the village. Apart from Newell's Terrace and the Fire Station I barely recognise anything.
And theyre not even Misterton technically 🤣
Lived here 1982 to 86 on Old Haxey Road.
I cycled through Misterton & up to Gringley last night a great village
I live on Carr Lane in the village moved here from that there Rotherham four years ago which I still commute to for work and I can honestly say the folks in Misterton are great always loved this area since my teens as I cycled here regularly and all the other areas with Rotherham wheelers cycling club now I live here and it’s fab 👍
Pedatically, Misterton Soss or Sass as it was originally called was the Lock on the River Idle. The lock on the Idle was originally constructed during the Dutch drainage in the 17th Century. The Pumping Engines do not pump the water into the River Idle but to move the water further along the Mother Drain to its outfall into the River Trent.
Not what I found. I found numerous sources telling me it moved water "up" from the low levels to the higher ones. Nothing about moving it along. The outfall was cited as the Idle
@@TheVillageIdiot You can see the continuation o the Mother Drain to the River Trent in this map of 1885 - maps.nls.uk/view/101587892#zoom=4&lat=4218&lon=2107&layers=BT
@@angust11 I'm not disputing that the drain continues past the Soss. What I'm getting at is the functionality, i.e. pumping water "up" as opposed to along
@@TheVillageIdiot Sorry to be a pain - From the Journal of the Agricultural Society of England 1851 - Page 325 - "The Soss works of drainage have two engines of 40 horsepower each, draining a district of about 6000 acres. The engines drive two large scoop wheels capable of lifting the water up to 12 feet: the outfall is the river Trent at Stockwith."
@@angust11 Yes there we go! "Lifting the water up 12 feet"