Forest Lock Moorings are located on an idyllic rural stretch of the Chesterfield Canal close to Retford in Nottinghamshire. This quiet site is below Forest Middle Top Lock (No. 55) and access is gained across the lock and down a number of steps.
The linear site is approximately 130 metres long and provides space for up to 10 vessels moored against the off-side bank (above and below the lock).
- Site Facilities
- Car Parking Drinking Water Elsan Disposal Refuse Disposal
- Nearest Road
The site is between Ranby and Retford. Ranby is a small village, approximately 3 miles away to the south west, which has a waterside pub. Retford is a small canalside town, approximately four miles away to the south east, where services including a post office, banks, restaurants and pubs are available.
The access lane is beside the Canal Bridge off Old London Road, which is off the A620.
- Nearest Station
Retford
- Nearest Town
Retford
- Additional Information
The majority of the facilities listed can be found in the facilities block which is adjacent to the lock, beside the parking area. The refuse disposal point is beside the turning point in the parking area. Please note, that the facilities block, parking area and waste disposal point is managed and controlled by the local waterway team. The water point is above the lock.
This is a leisure site and is determined by us to be a mooring site for the storage of boats between leisure use, customers may well spend weekends on this site, and occasionally longer periods, but it is not sold as, or intended to be suitable for long term residential use. This site does not have local authority planning consent for residential use, neither does it have the level of facilities and service expected of such a mooring. As such the offer that we have is only intended to meet the needs of a leisure boater.
- Waterway
- Chesterfield Canal
- Car Parking
- Unregulated - Unsecured
- Gated Access
- BW Key
- Grade
- Basic
- Pontoon Type
- Fixed with Timber Surface
- Viewing Arrangements
The site can be viewed at any time from the towpath. Whilst at the site, please respect the privacy of other moorers.
- Car Parking
- Drinking Water
- Elsan Disposal
- Refuse Disposal
- Showers
- Toilets