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Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Dearne and Dove Canal)

 
 
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The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Dearne and Dove Canal) is a broad canal and is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. It runs for 5¼ furlongs through 4 locks from Swinton Junction (where it joins the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Main Line)) to Swinton (which is a dead end).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 58 feet long and 14 feet and 11 inches wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

Notable features of the waterway include Swinton Locks

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust  0303 040 4040
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Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:

Swinton Junction
Junction of Dearne and Dove Canal with S&SYN.
Swinton Bottom Lock No 1 ¾ furlongs 0 locks
Swinton Lock No 2 1¾ furlongs 1 lock
Swinton Lock No 3 3 furlongs 2 locks
Swinton Top Lock No 4 4 furlongs 3 locks
Bridge Street Bridge (Swinton) 4 furlongs 4 locks
Swinton
End of Navigation		 5¼ furlongs 4 locks
 
 
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External websites
  S&SY navigation info — associated with Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
Sheffield & South Yorkshire navigation info from IWA
 
Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.

Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 27 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation.

The system consisted of five parts, four of which are still open to navigation today:-

  • The River Don Navigation
  • The Sheffield Canal (effectively abandoned in the early 1970s but revitalised since the 1990s)
  • The Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  • The New Junction Canal
  • The Dearne and Dove Canal (closed 1961)

Other Wikipedia pages that might relate to Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
[River Don Navigation] River Don Navigation was the result of early efforts to make the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, navigable between Fishlake and Sheffield. The Dutch [Sheffield] Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. The name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through the city. Historically [River Don, Yorkshire] Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company was formed in 1889, to buy back the River Don Navigation, the Sheffield Canal and the Stainforth and [Aire and Calder Navigation] 1905, to link the system to the River Don Navigation, by then part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. Steam tugs were introduced in 1831. In [South Yorkshire Railway] of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway south of Barnsley, the River Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canals; [New Junction Canal] canal in South Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SYN), although it was jointly funded by the Aire and Calder [Stainforth and Keadby Canal] first of several railway companies. It became part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, an attempt to remove several canals from railway control [List of canals of the United Kingdom] via the River Rother through to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, thus creating a new cruising ring and encouraging boats to visit the Chesterfield [Swinton, South Yorkshire] and timber milling and woodworking facilities. The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation canal, once a major transport route between Sheffield and
 
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