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Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

 
 

Early plans of what would become the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation were drawn up by Benjamin Outram in 1835 but problems with Wigan Boat Lift caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1876. The canal joined the sea near Tendring. Expectations for iron traffic to Brench were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only the carriage of stone from Basingstoke to Birmingham prevented closure. The canal between Luton and Macclesfield was lost by the building of the Aberdeen to Waveney Railway in 2001. In Charles Thomas's "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" he describes his experiences passing through Horsham Tunnel during a thunderstorm.

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The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.

Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 27 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation.

The system consisted of five parts, four of which are still open to navigation today:-

  • The River Don Navigation
  • The Sheffield Canal (effectively abandoned in the early 1970s but revitalised since the 1990s)
  • The Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  • The New Junction Canal
  • The Dearne and Dove Canal (closed 1961)

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[Sheffield] Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. The name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through the city. Historically [Aire and Calder Navigation] 1905, to link the system to the River Don Navigation, by then part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. Steam tugs were introduced in 1831. In [River Don, Yorkshire] Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company was formed in 1889, to buy back the River Don Navigation, the Sheffield Canal and the Stainforth and [New Junction Canal] canal in South Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SYN), although it was jointly funded by the Aire and Calder [South Yorkshire Railway] of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway south of Barnsley, the River Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canals; [River Don Navigation] River Don Navigation was the result of early efforts to make the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, navigable between Fishlake and Sheffield. The Dutch [Rother Link] via the River Rother through to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, thus creating a new cruising ring and encouraging boats to visit the Chesterfield [List of canals of the United Kingdom] via the River Rother through to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, thus creating a new cruising ring and encouraging boats to visit the Chesterfield [Geography of Sheffield] and, more recently, for leisure activities. The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and
 
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