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River Ancholme (Main River)

 
 
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The River Ancholme (Main River) is a small river and is part of the River Ancholme. It runs for 16 miles and 6½ furlongs through 1 lock from Humber - Ancholme Junction (where it joins the River Humber) to Harlam Hill Lock No 1 (where it joins the River Ancholme (unnavigable section)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 69 feet long and 16 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

It has a junction with the River Ancholme (Caistor Canal) at Caistor - Ancholme Junction.

The navigational authority for this waterway is Environment Agency
Humber - Ancholme Junction
Junction of the River Humber and the River Ancholme
The Hope and Anchor PH 5¼ furlongs 0 locks
Ferriby Sluice 5½ furlongs 0 locks
Red Lane Pipe Bridge 6 furlongs 1 lock
Horkstowe Bridge
A fine suspension bridge
1 mile and 2½ furlongs 1 lock
Winterton Landing 1 mile and 4¾ furlongs 1 lock
Saxby All Saints Bridge 2 miles and 5½ furlongs 1 lock
Appleby Landing 3 miles and ¾ furlongs 1 lock
Bonby Landing 4 miles and 3¼ furlongs 1 lock
Worlaby Landing Railway Bridge 5 miles and 1¼ furlongs 1 lock
Worlaby Landing Pipe Bridge 5 miles and 5 furlongs 1 lock
Worlaby Landing 5 miles and 5¾ furlongs 1 lock
Broughton Bridge 6 miles and 3¾ furlongs 1 lock
Carr Lane Pipe Bridge 7 miles and 5 furlongs 1 lock
Castlethorpe Bridge 7 miles and 5¼ furlongs 1 lock
Brigg Motorway Bridge 8 miles and 2 furlongs 1 lock
Brigg Pipe Bridge 8 miles and 2¼ furlongs 1 lock
Old River Ancholme Northern Junction
Northern junction with the navigable loop through Brigg, 1.75 miles long
8 miles and 2½ furlongs 1 lock
Brigg Town Bridge 8 miles and 6½ furlongs 1 lock
Brigg Town Railway Bridge 9 miles and 3 furlongs 1 lock
Old River Ancholme Southern Junction
Southern junction with the navigable loop through Brigg, 1.75 miles long
9 miles and 4¾ furlongs 1 lock
Cadney Bridge 11 miles and 2¾ furlongs 1 lock
Hibaldstow Bridge 12 miles and 1¾ furlongs 1 lock
North Kelsey Landing 12 miles and 4¾ furlongs 1 lock
Redbourne Old River 12 miles and 6 furlongs 1 lock
Caistor - Ancholme Junction
Junction of the River Ancholme and the Caistor Canal
13 miles and 6¾ furlongs 1 lock
Brandy Wharf Bridge 15 miles and 1 furlong 1 lock
Snitterby Bridge 16 miles and 4 furlongs 1 lock
Harlam Hill Lock Weir Exit
No Access
16 miles and 4¾ furlongs 1 lock
Harlam Hill Lock No 1 16 miles and 6½ furlongs 1 lock
 
 
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The River Ancholme is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the Humber. It rises at Ancholme Head, a spring just north of the village of Ingham (SK 96675 85014) and immediately west of the Roman Road, Ermine Street. It flows east and then north to Bishopbridge (west of Market Rasen) (TF 03163 91070), where it is joined by the Rase. North of Bishopbridge it flows through the market town of Brigg before draining into the Humber at South Ferriby. It drains a significant part of northern Lincolnshire between the Trent and the North Sea.

The river has been used by humans since at least 800 BC, confirmed by the excavation of a planked boat at Brigg, and patents covering improvements to the river are known from 1287 onwards. Major change occurred in 1635, when a new straight channel was constructed from Bishopbridge to Ferriby. The new channel carries most of the water and is known as the New River Ancholme, whereas the Old River Ancholme maintains its natural course, meandering from side to side. The old course is mostly reduced to a drain, except around the town of Brigg where the two rivers create an island in the centre of Brigg known as 'Island Carr'. Further improvements were started by John Rennie (the Elder) in the early 1800s and completed by his son in the 1820s, with the reconstruction of Ferriby Sluice taking place around 1841.

From that time onwards the river was reasonably profitable, and although receipts were reduced when railways arrived in the area, trade picked up in the 1890s, and was boosted by cargoes of sugar beet in the 1930s. All commercial carrying had ceased above Brigg by the 1970s, and stopped altogether in the 1980s. The upper section was almost derelict by then, but was restored and dredged in 2004. The river is an important drainage channel for north Lincolnshire, but is also used for leisure, with boating, rowing, canoeing and fishing taking place. Responsibility for the river changed six times between 1930 and 1996, but it is now managed by the Environment Agency.

The Ancholme Internal Drainage Board maintains twelve pumping stations on the banks of the river, which pump water from the surrounding low-lying land to prevent flooding. The river also supplies large volumes of water to the Scunthorpe Steelworks, and to Anglian Water, who use it to provide a public water supply to the South Humber bank industrial area. In order to maintain this volume of abstraction during the summer months, and other dry periods, water is transferred from Barlings Eau, near the River Witham, by the Trent Witham Ancholme transfer scheme, commissioned in 1974.

Few of the bridges which cross the river form part of a public road, and so they have not been replaced to cope with increased traffic. A number of them are listed structures, while Ferriby Lock is a scheduled ancient monument. The river is also home to two historic boats owned by the Humber Keel & Sloop Preservation Society.

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