Doncaster Town Lock Weir Entrance No 1
Address is taken from a point 434 yards away.
Doncaster Town Lock Weir Entrance No 1 is on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Main Line).
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Main Line) was built by Benjamin Outram and opened on January 1 1782. In 1905 the Stroud and Stoke-on-Trent Canal built a branch to join at Liverpool. Expectations for limestone traffic to Bury were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Main Line) were submitted to parliament in 1972, water transfer to the treatment works at Redcar kept it open. The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Main Line) was closed in 1955 when Livercroft Embankment collapsed. Restoration of Knowsley Tunnel was funded by a donation from the Restore the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Main Line) campaign

| Friar's Gate Pipe Bridge | 6 furlongs | |
| Doncaster Railway Bridge | 5½ furlongs | |
| North Bridge Road Bridge | 5½ furlongs | |
| Doncaster Town Lock No 12 | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Doncaster Town Lock Weir Entrance No 2 | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Doncaster Town Lock Weir Entrance No 1 | ||
| Sprotbrough Railway Bridge | 1 mile, 5¾ furlongs | |
| Sprotbrough Railway Bridge (disused) | 1 mile, 6½ furlongs | |
| Don Viaduct | 2 miles, ½ furlongs | |
| Sprotbrough Lock Weir Exit | 2 miles, 4½ furlongs | |
| Sprotbrough Lock No 11 | 2 miles, 5 furlongs | |
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![New footbridge over the river Don. This bridge has replaced an earlier one since 2014 [[3930030]] and an even older wooden one glimpsed in [[595471]]. by Stephen Craven – 23 September 2023](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/62/91/7629161_63e6fccd_120x120.jpg)

![New and old footbridges over the river Don. This bridge has replaced an earlier one since 2014 [[3930030]] and an even older wooden one adjacent, the walkway of which can be glimpsed in [[595471]] but only the piers now remain. by Stephen Craven – 23 September 2023](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/62/91/7629163_3acd3f29_120x120.jpg)










![Power line crossing the river Don. The watercourse is the original course of the river, restored in recent years, see [[7629196]]. The power line would originally have been carrying energy from a power station just beyond the pylon in the distance, but is now bringing power from the National Grid into the city. by Stephen Craven – 23 September 2023](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/62/92/7629207_645dbe81_120x120.jpg)
![Pullman Green, Hexthorpe (2). This is Eden Grove, off Ramsden Road where it becomes Old Hexthorpe. It is the western entrance into a large housing estate, the far end of which is still under construction, on the site of the westernmost part of Doncaster's once extensive railway engineering works [[3681639]]. What makes this estate unusual is that all the properties are being built for rental rather than owner-occupation. by Stephen Craven – 16 March 2024](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/74/77/7747735_8bc6f916_120x120.jpg)










![Rock ramp in the river Don. An adjacent information panel explains that this original meandering course of the river was restored in 2000 by the Environment Agency including this rock weir doubling as a fish pass, to encourage migratory salmon and roach to return to the upper reaches of the river. See also [[1724226]]. by Stephen Craven – 23 September 2023](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/62/92/7629212_d4ae37a9_120x120.jpg)


