Holmes Lock No 2
Address is taken from a point 308 yards away.
Holmes Lock No 2 is one of a group of locks on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Sheffield Canal) and is one of the deepest locks on the waterway just past the junction with The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Sheffield Canal) was built by Oliver Edwards and opened on January 1 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Liverington to Wolverhampton canal at Rochdale, the difficulty of tunneling through the Nuneaton Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Chelmsford instead. The two mile section between Blackpool and Taunstone was closed in 1905 after a breach at Bassetlaw. "By Barge Pole and Mooring Pin Across The Pennines" by John Jones describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Liverpool Locks.

This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Millmoor Lane Bridge | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Ickles Lock No 3 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Ickles Lock Railway Bridge No 2 | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Ickles Lock Railway Bridge No 1 (disused) | 3 furlongs | |
| Steel Street Bridge | a few yards | |
| Holmes Lock No 2 | ||
| Meadow Bank Road Pipe Bridge | 2 furlongs | |
| Jordan Lock No 1 | 4 furlongs | |
| Tinsley Aqueduct | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Tinsley Weir Entrance | 5 furlongs | |
| Tinsley Sewage Works Bridge | 5¾ furlongs | |
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- Sheffield & South Yorkshire navigation info from IWA
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![Railways at Holmes Junction, Rotherham 1998. View eastward from a footbridge off Psalter Road: the twin tracks to the left were the ex-Midland main lines, through Rotherham (Masborough) station (closed 3/10/1988) to Swinton, Wath Road Junction and Leeds/York, used by through fast trains. The single line in the centre is the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway's route to Rotherham Westgate terminus (closed 4/10/1952). It now serves C.F.Booth's scrapyard. On the right is the single-line Holmes Chord, opened 11/5/1987, connecting with the former Great Central main line from Sheffield (Victoria) to Doncaster through a new Rotherham Central station. After new connections were made between the parallel Midland and GC main lines at Nunnery Junction and at Aldwarke in April 1965, all through passenger trains east of Sheffield used the Midland station at Sheffield and ran via Wincobank (now Meadowhall) and Holmes Junction. Since than, the ex-GC line from Sheffield via Tinsley has been freight-only, with the exception of the Tram Train. Holmes station was behind the camera and was closed 19/9/1955 (cf [[2239478]]). by Ben Brooksbank – 21 June 1998](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/68/36/3683661_ccdad0fa_120x120.jpg)






















