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Aire and Calder Navigation

Aire and Calder Navigation
Large commercial barge.jpg
One of the 600 tonne barges used on the Navigation
Specifications
Length 34 miles (55 km)
Maximum boat length 200 ft 0 in (60.96 m)
(originally 58 ft 0 in or 17.68 m)
Maximum boat beam 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m)
(originally 14 ft 6 in or 4.42 m)
Locks 16
Status Open
Navigation authority Canal and River Trust
History
Original owner Aire and Calder Navigation Company
Principal engineer John Hadley
Date of act 1699
Date of first use 1704
Geography
Start point Leeds (Aire) and Wakefield (Calder)
End point Goole Docks
Aire and Calder Navigation
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Leeds
Leeds Lock
Calder and Hebble Navigation
River Calder and Wakefield
Knostrop Flood Gates
Fall Ing Lock
River Aire
Knostrop Fall Lock and weir
Broadreach Lock
A1/M1 Link Bridge
Stanley Ferry Aqueducts
Fishpond Lock
Birkwood Lock
Woodlesford Lock
A642 Swillington Bridge
Kings Road Lock
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