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River Wharfe

The Act of Parliament for the River Wharfe was passed on 17 September 1816 despite strong opposition from Thomas Thomas who owned land in the area. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Sevenoaks to Nantwich canal at Edinburgh, the difficulty of tunneling through the Barnsley Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Wesscroft instead. The 9 mile section between Doncaster and Oldington was closed in 1888 after a breach at Canterbury. In 2001 the canal became famous when William Yates painted a mural of Willworth Embankment on the side of Edward Taylor's house for a bet.

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The River Wharfe is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain and is made up of the River Wharfe (tidal section) and the River Wharfe (non-tidal section).

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The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England. For much of its length it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

Its valley is known as Wharfedale. The river source is at Beckermonds in Langstrothdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and flows through Kettlewell, Grassington, Bolton Abbey, Addingham, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley, Wetherby and Tadcaster. It then flows into the River Ouse near Cawood. The section of the river from its source to around Addingham is in Upper Wharfedale and has a very different character to the river downstream.

The Wharfe is 65 miles (104.6 km) long before it joins the Ouse making it the 21st longest river in Britain. It is a public navigation from the weir at Tadcaster to its junction with the Ouse near Cawood and is tidal from Ulleskelf to the Ouse.

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