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Originally called the Earl of Thanet’s Canal, it is now more widely known as the Springs Canal and the wording of the 1773 Act gives a clue as to how this alternative name came about: ‘An Act to enable the Right Honourable Sackville, Earl of Thanet, to make a navigable Cut or Canal from a Place called the Spring, lying near Skipton, to join ...
Mar 13, 2024 · Consequently in 1790 work began to close the gap, which coincidentally included the canal summit. No one would have guessed it would take 42 years to complete the canal, which would only become fully navigable by 1816. The canal's most important cargo was coal closely followed by merchandise.
The Aire and Calder Navigation Company made the River Aire navigable as far as Leeds in 1704 with the construction of locks and lock cuts between Knottingley and Leeds. Two years later, the company made the River Calder navigable from Castleford to Wakefield.
The Leeds-Liverpool canal joined the Aire and Calder Navigation at Leeds, enabling traffic to continue through to the East Coast via the Ouse and the Humber. The lower Aire, however, could not deal with the increasing volume of trade and so a canal linking Knottingley with Goole was opened in 1826.
Mar 13, 2024 · The Aire & Calder Navigation, linking Leeds to the sea, was built primarily by textile merchants and coal owners who saw a better transport infrastructure as a key part of the development of their trade.
Connecting Leeds to the sea, part one: the story of the Aire and Calder Navigation During the 17th-century shipping could travel up river from the sea only as far as the inland ports of Knottingley, Selby and York.
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The Navigation was in use by 1741 and completed in 1743. The Navigation originally had thirteen locks, including one at Parbold just south of where the Canal now crosses the river, and which can be seen on the 1802 Leeds & Liverpool Canal Survey called ‘Old Lock’.
