Rivers of Rotherham - River Don, South Yorkshire, River Rother, South Yorkshire, River Dearne, River Ryton (Paperback)

Chapters: River Don, South Yorkshire, River Rother, South Yorkshire, River Dearne, River Ryton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: River Don, South Yorkshire - Navigation to Sheffield was made possible by using canal cuttings to avoid circuitous and unnavigable sections of the Don as far up as Tinsley, and then by a canal from Tinsley to Sheffield. The cuts and navigable river sections (with two canals connecting the Don to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Trent respectively) constitute the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. The lower Don originally meandered in a north-easterly direction across the marshland of Hatfield Chase to enter the Trent just above its junction with the Ouse. It formed the boundary between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. In the marshland drainage project of 1627, the Dutch civil engineer Cornelius Vermuyden diverted the Don northwards and then eastwards to enter the Ouse at the site of Goole, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) upstream of the Trent. The "Dutch River" so formed had the advantage of being navigable by small coal barges which transferred their cargo to sea-going vessels at the Ouse. The construction of the railway from Doncaster to Goole in 1870 greatly reduced this traffic and when the cut-off New Junction Canal from Stainforth to the Aire and Calder Navigation (Knottingley and Goole Canal) west of Goole was completed in 1897, the Dutch River reverted almost entirely to its original drainage function. The Stainforth and Keadby Canal allows navigation from the Don at Stainforth to the Trent at Keadby. The Don has produced a number of notable floods. On the night of 26 October 1536 a sudden rise in the level of the river prevented the forces of the Pilgrimage of Grace from crossing the river at Doncaster, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=166837