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	Bingley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bingley is a town in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north west of Bradford.
		The town lies on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and among its attractions there is a famous piece of canal architecture: the Bingley Five Rise Lock.
		The headquarters of Bradford and Bingley, the seventh largest bank in the United Kingdom are in Bingley.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Bingley (88 words)

	Broadmining: Lock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A lock (device) a mechanical fastening device which may be used on a door, vehicle, or container.
		A canal lock is an enclosure in a
		Locks are typically very tall to facilitate catching balls in the line-out.
	www.lowide.com /Lock&t= (199 words)

	Five Rise Lock, Bingley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the Pennines being so hilly, locks had to be introduced to raise or lower the level of the canal.
		Bingley Five Rise lock, which alters the height of the water by just over 59 ft, is the most impressive in Britain.
		The lock is part of the Leeds-Liverpool canal, which took 46 years to complete from the time work started in 1770.
	www.brianlambert.btinternet.co.uk /pic69.htm (114 words)

	Bingley Five Rise Locks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bingley Five Rise Locks is a series of five locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley.
		The smaller Three Rise opened at the same time just a few hundred meters further down.
		The locks comprises a 'staircase' flight - the lower gate of one lock forms the upper gate of the next lock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bingley_Five_Rise_Lock (118 words)

	Bingley five-rise locks - Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5-rise lock staircase
		Bingley Five-rise lock staircase is the most spectacular feature of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
		The locks open directly from one to another, with the top gate of one forming the bottom gate of the next.
		The locks are supervised by a lock keeper and are closed at night.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /ll/bingleyfiverise.htm (213 words)

	Over Hill, Over Dale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As the canal climbs out of the city the first three locks are wide single locks but numbers 4 and 5 are the first of the many staircase locks that are found at this end of the canal.
		The locks build to a crescendo in the next couple of miles, starting with the single Hirst Lock, then Dowley Gap two rise and Bingley three rise, to be crowned by one of the wonders of the waterways, Bingley five rise.
		There is always a lock keeper at the Bingley five, and often at the three rise, to see you through.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Over-Hill-Over-Dale.html (2113 words)

	Around Bingley - Five Rise Locks and the Canal
		This stretch of the canal was opened on 21st march 1774, the first boat down the Five Rise Locks taking 28 minutes.
		"From Bingley to about 3 miles downwards the noblest works of the kind are exhibited viz: A five fold, a three fold and a single lock, making together a fall of 120 feet; a large aqueduct bridge of seven arches over the River Aire and an aqueduct and banking over the Shipley valley.......
		This joyful and mucj wished for event was welcomed with the ringing of Bingley bells, a band of music, the firing of guns by the neighbouring Militia, the shouts of spectators, and all the marks of satisfaction that so important an acquisition merits".
	www.bingley.org.uk /around/locks.htm (137 words)

	SKIPTON WEB: Five Rise Locks
		Bingley Five Rise lock, which alters the height of the water by almost 60 ft, is the most impressive in Britain.
		An 18th century engineering masterpiece, these five locks operate as a 'staircase' flight in which the lower gate of one lock forms the upper gate of the next.
		For a journey upwards, the bottom lock must be empty, with all the others full: the reverse is the case for a boat descending.
	www.skiptonweb.co.uk /tourist/cragface_chron/18_fiverise (638 words)

	Bingley Five Rise Lock - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1774, 2004, Canal lock, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bingley Five Rise Lock - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1774, 2004, Canal lock,...
		Bingley Five Rise Lock is a series of five locks on the Leeds Liverpool Canal at Bingley.
		The lock comprises a 'staircase' flight - the lower gate of one lock forms the upper gate of the next lock.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bingley_Five_Rise_Lock.html (133 words)

	Drive and Stroll - This Is Lancashire
		The locks, which still function perfectly, were opened in 1774 and lift boats over a distance of 320 feet by a staggering 59 feet, two inches.
		At Bingley a water bus runs along the canal from Saltaire and this is not only used by tourists but also by the local folk who fancy a leisurely journey to and from the town.
		Bingley has lots of attractive old cottages and is regarded by the locals as one of the best places to eat.
	archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /2001/07/21/666861.html (561 words)

	Bingley accommodation - hotels guest houses bed and breakfast self catering cottage accommodation in Bingley UK
		Bingley is a small town in the Aire Valley, on the A650 between Bradford and Keighley.
		The lock, which alters the height of the water by just over 59 ft, is the most impressive in Britain.
		The Five Rise Locks are still in daily operation, run by British Waterways.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /bingley.html (114 words)

	Go Yorkshire Go/West Yorkshire/
		With the Pennines being so high locks had to be introduced to raise or lower the water level of the canal.
		The lock is part of the Leeds-Liverpool canal that took 46 years to complete from the time work started in 1770.
		James Brindley one of the greatest of the canal builders who also designed the Five Rise lock laid out the line of the canal, which is over 108 miles long, along the Aire valley.
	www.goyorkshirego.com /WebPages/WestYorkshire.htm (1161 words)

	BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - A Sense of Place -
		Bingley is an old market town on the banks of the River Aire, five miles north of Bradford.
		A short walk along the towpath from the Damart factory takes you to the Five Rise Locks, Bingley's most famous monument and a wonder of the canal age.
		Bingley Arts Centre is the home of the Bingley Little Theatre, regularly hosting amateur dramatics as well as Gilbert and Sullivan and other musical events.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bradford/sense_of_place/bingley.shtml (1015 words)

	Seven Wonders of the Waterways
		The flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill, Devizes is not the longest in the country (that honour belonging to the 36 locks at Tardebigge on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal), but is visually far more impressive because 16 of the locks fall in a straight line, close together with large side ponds.
		The locks became derelict by about 1950, but after a strong campaign against closure of the canal, followed by a major restoration effort, were reopened by HM The Queen on 8 August 1990.
		The locks were refurbished for night traffic in 1909, in 1911 the Lift was mothballed to save money, the traffic returning to the locks which have been in use ever since.
	www.luphen.org.uk /canals/7wonders.htm (2004 words)

	The 1993 Tour page 2
		At this point we phoned the expectant Keadby lock keeper again and he said that there were no coasters on the jetties (fortunately!) and could we try to get ourselves on the upstream corner to his lock.
		The Keadby lock keeper is one of he old school of commercial BWB employees and asked us to move back a bit.
		Again all the locks on the Aire and Calder were keeper controlled (not all had been modified for boater operation, at this time) We stopped at the water point below Whitley Lock, between 12.30 and 12.50, where we also had lunch.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /Tour_93/93b.html (2151 words)

	A true marvel of engineering - This Is Lancashire
		I LOVE the Bingley Five Rise staircase locks, which are a true engineering wonder.
		After lunch I descended from the locks down to the church, which is still the focal point of the settlement.
		Bingley was a Christian settlement as early as the seventh century, when Saxon crosses and then a church were erected.
	archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /2002/10/19/589979.html (549 words)

	How a Canal lock works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A canal lock is used to raise or lower the water level, and are usually kept together in flights such as those at Bingley five rise locks.
		They are situated on both sides of the lock and the water is channeled through a tunnel into the lower lock.
		The boat begins to rise as the lock fills with water.
	www.haworth-village.org.uk /nature/how/canal-lock.asp (269 words)

	Leeds & Liverpool - Part 2. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The lock keeper waded around in the top chamber trying to find the foreign objects and was given plenty of moral support, not only from us, but from all the gongoozlers that had arrived on the scene.
		With his wellies full of water the lock keeper found and removed the offending objects, a crushed oil drum and tree stump, and then proceeded to fill both chambers at the same time by opening the ground culverts, which were above the water line, and the gate paddles.
		His reputation as a skillful and dedicated lock keeper is not unfounded, he was always on the go making sure the locks were clear of rubbish and everywhere was spotless clean.
	pages.prodigy.net /brinnand/ramblings/cruise2b.htm (787 words)

	History of Leeds and Liverpool Canal
		Most of the locks are concentrated in groups with long level sections between.
		The earliest locks, between Leeds and Bingley, are often grouped together to form staircases of two or three locks.
		The most spectacular feature of the canal is the five rise lock staircase at Bingley.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /ll/ll2.htm (609 words)

	Bingley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lloyd It was no surprise that Bradford & Bingley, as the UKs largest high street mortgage...
		Bingley has recently had some problems with drink related disorder, but is a relatively quiet small town.
		Bingley's natural history: Exhibiting, in a series of delightful anecdotes and descriptions, the characteristic habits a...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Bingley (355 words)

	Britain's Waterways - Leeds and Liverpool Canal page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Climbing up through some of the most attractive scenery in the country spectacular locks lead to the summit on one of the lower passes across the Pennines, typified by the environs of the lock flight at Greenberfield.
		Five locks from Liverpool, two locks from Runcom and eleven locks from Lancaster; a flight of twenty one wide (14 foot) and short (60 foot) locks rises (215 feet) to meet (and in 1851 to ‘take over’) the 13 mile southern pound of the Lancaster Canal.
		There are 3 sets of two-rise plus 4 sets of three-rise plus Bingley five-rise, a total of 23 locks rising 155 feet over 16 miles from Kirkstall to the long pound past Skipton.
	www.britains-waterways.com /leedsliv.htm (875 words)

	Seven Wonders of the Waterways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The locks became derelict shortly after the second world war and, after years of dedicated restoration work along the whole of the canal, were reopened by HM The Queen on 8th August 1990.
		The five locks are a staircase flight, that means that the lower gates of one lock forms the upper gates of the next and there are no pounds between locks.
		These broad locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal were opened on the 21st March 1774 watched by thousands of people amazed and delighted by the spectacle of five laden boats descending the locks.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Seven-Wonders.html (1206 words)

	The 1997 Tour - page 10
		We arrived at the bottom of the flight of seven locks at 9.25, having caught up a slower single boat, which stopped at the bottom for breakfast.
		Neil was a bit bored, so in lock wheeling mode cracked the crew on to a quick descent of 45 minutes of the deserted flight of six locks.
		The bottom of Johnson's Hill locks was reached at 9.20.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /tour97/page10.html (1504 words)

	Leeds & Liverpool Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The locks were designed to take the 60 feet long barges (or short boats) which already worked the Aire and Calder Navigation and this meant that the 70 feet narrow boats which became common in the south could not use the route.
		An arm with locks would be needed to lower the canal down to the river but at this time it was decided that trans-shipment up and down between the two waterways was acceptable.
		The 91 massive locks which carried the canal across the Pennines were causing immense water supply problems despite the building of several reservoirs during the previous decade.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/leedsliverpool.htm (7282 words)

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		It was quiet on the cut today, and even at Bingley there was an absense of the hoards of onlookers that are usually around.I savoured the occassion passing through one cavernous lock after another until the last gates opened to show the canal wandering off into the distance.
		It was all over so quickly, but at last I had 'done the five', and I looked back to take a photo to prove it to myself, a photo that is famous throughout the world.
		On through Bingley we came to the second staircase here, this time just three locks all in a line......
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7543438&postID=108966749169984974 (408 words)

	Observer \| Week six preview: Sound familiar?
		From the Bingley Five Rise, the journey now proceeds on a lock-free 15-mile pound to the next set of six at Gargrave, just west of Skipton.
		From Bingley most of the locks are flights of singles grouped closely together.
		Another nine locks and the summit level is reached, marked by the 1,640 yards of the Foulridge tunnel.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4406955-102284,00.html (279 words)

	British Waterways - Sapperton Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 2-mile long (3.4km) tunnel was an incredible engineering feat - workers at the time not only had to tunnel through hard earth and limestone, but also had to cope with the many springs making their job even more hazardous.
		They had to rely on muscle power and the occasional dangerous blast of fl powder to make their way through but, amazingly, the tunnel was completed in only five years.
		It was widely considered that Sapperton Tunnel had been bored out in such a straight line that it was possible to see right through from one end to the other.
	www.waterwaynetwork.com /site/SappertonTunnel_1169.asp (258 words)

	Youth Hostel Escapes - Leeds Waterfront Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From the Abbey House museum, cross the road back into the Abbey grounds and proceed to the left towards the tower end of the Abbey.
		Continue along the path, passing the pretty marina area with it's colourful canal barges, past several locks, including a double lock, until you reach the lock-keeper's house in the wharf area of Leeds and pass the millenium marker post pictured.
		The entire 127 mile canal towpath is walkable, with a wide selection of canalside pubs to choose from along the route, and many sights and attractions located on or close to the canal, including the "Canal Turn" fence at Aintree racecourse and the towering Bingley Five-rise lock system.
	www.hostel-escapes.com /features/walks/leeds_waterfront_walk (486 words)

	Hotels in Bingley Yorkshire accommodation - Bingley hotels accommodation in Yorkshire UK
		From Bingley you can explore the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, a lovely upland area of limestone hills and pastoral valleys at the heart of the Pennines.
		Set in private grounds with a drive leading to a hotel which resembles a Gothic mansion.
		The Homeleigh Hotel is perfectly placed for historic Saltaire, Bronteland and the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /bingleyhotels.html (250 words)

	British Canals DVD and Video
		The Leeds Liverpool Canal is the longest manmade waterway in Britain.
		Taking in the Bingley Five Rise, one of the wonders of the waterway world.
		We’re travelling by towpath along a wildlife corridor and meet lock keepers, boat builders and the free spirits who’ve made the canal their home.
	www.stridingedge.com /catalogue/canal.html (343 words)

	Document sans titre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bingley Grammar School - Collège des Rousses exchange.
		Bingley is a small town north of Bradford (Yorkshire).
		and the photo is taken on a lock.
	artic.ac-besancon.fr /college_le_rochat/site_GB/bingley8.html (269 words)

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