Calder and Hebble Navigation (Main Line)
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 14 feet wide. The maximum headroom is 8 feet and 7 inches. The maximum draught is 4 feet and 11 inches.
It has a junction with the Rochdale Canal at Sowerby Bridge Junction.
The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River TrustRelevant publications — Waterway Maps:
- Waterway Routes 01M - England and Wales Map
- Waterway Routes 82M - South Pennine Ring Map (Downloadable)
- Waterway Routes 13M - Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations Map (Downloadable)
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
| Salterhebble Junction Junction of Halifax Branch (closed after 600 yards) with Calder and Hebble Main Line (limit of 72ft navigation) |
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| Railway Bridge No 9 (Calder and Hebble) | ¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lister Bridge No 8 | 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Copley Lane Bridge No 7 | 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Railway Bridge No 6 | 6 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Copley Footbridge No 7 | 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sterne Mill Bridge No 4 | 1 mile and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sterne Mill Winding Hole | 1 mile and 2½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Edward Road Bridge No 3 | 1 mile and 4¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Mearclough Bridge No 2 | 1 mile and 6¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Walker Bridge No 1 | 1 mile and 7½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sowerby Bridge First Pipe Bridge | 1 mile and 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sowerby Bridge Visitor Moorings 48 hour moorings |
2 miles | 0 locks | |
| Sowerby Bridge Second Pipe Bridge | 2 miles and ¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Chain Bridge No 1 | 2 miles and ½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sowerby Bridge Junction Junction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation and the Rochdale Canal |
2 miles and ¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sowerby Bridge Basin | 2 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 0 locks |
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Wikipedia has a page about Calder and Hebble Navigation
The Calder and Hebble Navigation is a broad inland waterway, with locks and bridgeholes that are suitable for 14-foot-wide (4.3 m) boats, in West Yorkshire, England. Construction to improve the River Calder and the River Hebble began in 1759, and the initial scheme, which included 5.7 miles (9.2 km) of new cuts, was completed in 1770 and has remained navigable since it was opened. Significant improvements were made, including the Salterhebble branch to Halifax, opened in 1828, and ever-longer cuts to bypass river sections. Trade was assisted by the opening of the Rochdale Canal in 1804, which provided a through route from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester. There were plans to abandon the river sections completely in the 1830s, but these were modified as the needs of mill owners and other riparian landowners were recognised.
With the coming of the railways, the canal was leased to the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1843, but this was subsequently deemed to be illegal, and the Aire and Calder Navigation with which the Calder and Hebble Navigation connected at its eastern end, leased the canal from September 1847 until 1885. Some of the locks were enlarged, but many were not, and having been designed for Yorkshire Keels, they remain among the shortest on the English connected waterways network, at 57 feet (17 m). The navigation became a cul-de-sac in the 20th century, but with the burgeoning interest in leisure use of the canals, the trans-Pennine Rochdale Canal was reopened in 1996 and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal followed in 2001, resulting in the navigation becoming part of three Pennine cruising rings.