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River Hull (Main Line)

Information about the waterway

The River Hull (Main Line) is a tidal river and is part of the River Hull. It runs for 20 miles through 2 locks from Struncheon Hill Locks Nos 6 and 7 (where it joins the Driffield Navigation (Main waterway)) to River Hull - Humber Junction (where it joins the River Humber).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 61 feet long and 14 feet and 6 inches wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

It has a junction with the River Hull (Beverley Beck) at Grovehill Junction.

Struncheon Hill Locks Nos 6 and 7 Junction with River Hull
Hallytreeholme Beck Tributary of the Hull (un-navigable)	4¼ furlongs	2 locks
Top Hill Low Pumping Station Also a nature reserve	1 mile and 2¾ furlongs	2 locks
Baswick Landing	1 mile and 5½ furlongs	2 locks
High Baswick	1 mile and 7 furlongs	2 locks
Wilfholme Beck Tributary of the Hull (un-navigable)	2 miles and 4¼ furlongs	2 locks
Wilfholme Landing	2 miles and 5¼ furlongs	2 locks
Linley Hill Airfield EGNY close by	3 miles and 1½ furlongs	2 locks
Aike Beck Junction Aike Beck used to join here	3 miles and 7¼ furlongs	2 locks
Leven Canal Junction Leven Canal (closed)	4 miles and 2¾ furlongs	2 locks
Arram Beck Tributary of the Hull (un-navigable)	5 miles and 3 furlongs	2 locks
New Hull Bridge	7 miles and ¼ furlongs	2 locks
Hull Bridge Tickton	7 miles and ¾ furlongs	2 locks
Beverley Boat Hire Rowing and motor boat hire	7 miles and ¾ furlongs	2 locks
Weel Bridge On the outskirts of Beverley. Bridge keeper is employed by Beverley Council. Call Steve on 07930663331.	8 miles and 3¼ furlongs	2 locks
Grovehill Junction Junction with Beverley Beck - a tributary of the Hull	8 miles and 6 furlongs	2 locks
Weel	9 miles and 1 furlong	2 locks
Wawne Ferry	11 miles and 1 furlong	2 locks
Ennerdale Bridge No 2	13 miles and 3½ furlongs	2 locks
Ennerdale Bridge No 1	13 miles and 3¾ furlongs	2 locks
Sutton Road Bridge (Hull)	14 miles and 6½ furlongs	2 locks
Stoneferry Bridge No 2	16 miles and 3 furlongs	2 locks
Stoneferry Bridge No 1	16 miles and 3¼ furlongs	2 locks
Hull and Barnsley Railway Bridge	16 miles and 7¼ furlongs	2 locks
Wilmington Bridge It used to carry the Hornsea, and Withernsea railways across the river.	17 miles and 2 furlongs	2 locks
Chapman Street Bridge	17 miles and 6 furlongs	2 locks
Scott Street Permanently open	18 miles and ½ furlongs	2 locks
North Bridge	18 miles and 2½ furlongs	2 locks
Drypool Bridge	18 miles and 4 furlongs	2 locks
Tower Street Basin	18 miles and 4½ furlongs	2 locks
Scale Lane Swing Bridge	18 miles and 5¾ furlongs	2 locks
Garrison Road Bridge	18 miles and 6¾ furlongs	2 locks
River Hull Tidal Barrier	18 miles and 7¼ furlongs	2 locks
Myton Bridge	18 miles and 7½ furlongs	2 locks
River Hull - Humber Junction Kingston-upon-Hull	20 miles	2 locks

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External websites

The rideable Swing Bridge — associated with Scale Lane Swing Bridge: opened in 2013
Scale Lane Bridge — associated with Scale Lane Swing Bridge: concept description

Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about River Hull

The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops of York charged tolls for its use, it became a free navigation. The upper reaches became part of the Driffield Navigation from 1770, after which they were again subject to tolls, and the section within the city of Hull came under the jurisdiction of the Port of Hull, with the same result.

Most of its course is through low-lying land that is at or just above sea level, and regular flooding has been a long-standing problem along the waterway. Drainage schemes to alleviate it were constructed on both sides of the river. The Holderness Drainage scheme to the east was completed in 1772, with a second phase in 1805, and the Beverley and Barmston Drain to the west was completed in 1810. Since 1980, the mouth of the river has been protected by a tidal barrier at the estuary, which can be closed to prevent tidal surges entering the river system and causing flooding upriver.

Most of the bridges which cross the river are movable, to allow shipping to pass. There are six swing bridges; four bascule bridges, two of which have twin leaves, one for each carriageway of the roads which they carry; and three Scherzer lift bridges, which are a type of rolling bascule bridge. Scott Street Bridge, which is now permanently raised, was originally powered from a high pressure water main maintained by the first public power distribution company in the world.

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[Kingston upon Hull] upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its [Hull] named Hull—Aylmer Hull, Florida Hull, Georgia Hull, Illinois Hull, Iowa Hull, Massachusetts Hull, North Dakota Hull, Texas Hull, West Virginia Hull, Marathon [Port of Hull] The Port of Hull is a port at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England [Hull City A.F.C.] Hull City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. Founded in 1904, the club competes in the [Hull, Quebec] neighbourhood in Hull. The Gatineau River, like the Ottawa River, was very much the preserve of the draveurs, people who would use the river to transport [Humber] Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the north bank (where the River Hull joins), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes [Hull F.C.] Hull support Hull F.C. while Hull Kingston Rovers are supported by the east half, the border being the River Hull. Old Faithful is a traditional Hull [Hull, Massachusetts] of Hull, into Boston's Long Wharf, which is close to the North End and Faneuil Hall. Hull is separated from Cohasset and Hingham by the Weir River estuary [Fortifications of Kingston upon Hull] to thirty towers at its maximum extent; Hull Castle, on the east bank of the River Hull, protecting Hull's river harbour, constructed in the mid 16th century

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