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  South Yorkshire Police - Homepage
South Yorkshire Police assessment centre scheduled 3rd - 6th July is going ahead.
South Yorkshire Police is one of the most improved forces in the country.
South Yorkshire Police is there for you in your neighbourhood.
www.southyorks.police.uk   (113 words)

  
  River Don, England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Along the Sheffield - Rotherham stretch of the river are five weirs that punctuate a local footpath: the Five Weirs Walk.
Some of the twistier sections of the Don are abridged by a series of canal cuttings that constitute the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.
Fig trees grow on a stretch of the river bank in Sheffield; the seeds having germinated successfully thanks to the increased warmth of the water near factory outfalls.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/r/ri/river_don__england.html   (210 words)

  
 YORKSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on YORKSHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Manufaciures.The industrial district of south Yorkshire occupies the S. of the W. Riding, and may be taken as marked off approximately by the watershed from the similar district in S. Lancashire.
South of the last-named is the village of Ampleforth, with its large Roman Catholic college, founded in i8o2, and accommodating, in fine modern buildings, about 120 students.
The early fame of Sheffield as the centre of the cutlery and iron trade is demonstrated by the line in Chaucer, a Sheffield whitel bore he in his hose.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Y/YO/YORKSHIRE.htm   (6584 words)

  
 IWA Individual Waterways - Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
between Sheffield and Keadby with connections to the New Junction Canal, the Dearne and Dove Canal (which is the subject of an active restoration campaign) and the Trent.
An Act was passed for the extension of the Dun from Tinsley to Sheffield in 1815 and in 1819 the Sheffield Canal was opened.
The Sheffield and Tinsley Canal - Simon Ogden
www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/sheffield   (259 words)

  
 Dearne and Dove Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The idea of creating a navigable waterway to barnsley was first proposed in 1773 by the Marquis of Rockingham.
The North Midland Railway opened in 1840 and this represented a major threat to the domination of the cargo trade by all the South Yorkshire navigations.
The canal was taken other by the Don Navigation Company in 1846 but competition from the railways lead to it being amalgamated with the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company four years later.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dearne_and_Dove_Canal   (1593 words)

  
 River Don, England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Along the Sheffield–Rotherham stretch of the river are five weirs that punctuate a local footpath: the Five Weirs Walk.
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 main canal west of Goole was completed in 1897, the Dutch River reverted almost entirely to its original drainage function.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Don,_England   (381 words)

  
 Land Compensation : Section 10 : Special Cases within the Compensation Code - Appendix 10/4 : British Waterways Board: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Aire and Calder Navigation from the tail of River Lock, Leeds and from the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Wakefield to its entrance to Goole Docks and its junction with the River Ouse at Selby.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation from the tail of the bottom lock at its junction with the River Trent at Keadby.
The River Lee Navigation from Hertford to the River Thames at Limehouse and to the rail of Bow Docks.
www.voa.gov.uk /instructions/chapters/land_compensation_ch5/sect10/s10app4.htm   (790 words)

  
 Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation is a series of canal cuttings in the north of England, along the course of the River Don.
It runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 29 locks.
The navigation was formed in 1895 with the amalgamation of a number of component waterways including the Stainforth and Keadby, the Don Navigation, and the Sheffield Canal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheffield_and_South_Yorkshire_Navigation   (101 words)

  
 Outdooryorkshire.com - Yorkshire Tourist Board's Outdoor Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Cycle along one of Yorkshire’s picturesque towpaths - through the City of York along the River Ouse or the Sheffield and South Yorkshire navigation, which mainly follows the River Don.
Crossing the stunning moorlands of North Yorkshire and through beautiful forests to the dramatic heritage coastline, the Moor to Sea cycle route links the towns of Scarborough, Pickering and Whitby in a long distance cycle route.
The West Yorkshire Cycle Route is a 150 mile circular route that roughly follows the West Yorkshire County Boundary.
www.walkyorkshire.com /exec/129757/8029/PROFILE=   (392 words)

  
 Sheffield City Council - Sheffield to Tinsley Canal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The 4 mile long Sheffield to Tinsley Canal was opened in 1814 to carry boats between the navigable River Don at Tinsley and a new basin (Victoria Quays) close to the heart of Sheffield.
It is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation which runs for 40 miles between Sheffield and the River Trent, eventually leading to the Humber and the sea.
Built to take Yorkshire Keels, which were barges powered by sail, the navigation has been upgraded in this century to take 700 tonne Euro Barges although none visit the Sheffield end of the canal.
www.sheffield.gov.uk /index.asp?pgid=47571&mtype=print   (313 words)

  
 Five Weirs Walk, Sheffield, England
Sheffield is a wonderful place to visit not least due to its beautiful setting close to the Peak District National Park.
Yorkshire is the ideal destination for a holiday or short break.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation has many leisure and tourism attractions with the multi-millionpound redevelopment of Sheffield Basin at its head.
www.fiveweirs.co.uk /hof.htm   (317 words)

  
 Biff Books and Records (Sheffield) - Sheffield Books
Amey, Geoffrey: The Collapse of the Dale Dyke Dam 1864.
Autobiography of a Sheffield man born on the eve of the First World War.
The definitive A to Z listing of Sheffield public houses, featuring over 600 new unpublished photographs and drawings of Sheffield's public houses, including 150 which are no loner open.
www.btinternet.com /~biffbooks/sheffield.htm   (594 words)

  
 Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Junction with Sheffield and South Yorkshire New Junction Canal
If a D appears here it means that navigation is difficult or restricted to smaller craft.
This waterway is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Sheffield--South-Yorkshire-Navigation.html   (368 words)

  
 Rotherham Rivers & Canals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The River Don rises in Yorkshire in the Peak District, passes Penistone, Thurgoland, Wadsley Bridge, Crookes, to central Sheffield.
The River Don was partly navigable and in the Eighteenth Century canal companies were formed to canalise the river and to make cuts where necessary to facilitate the travel of boats upriver.
Eventually it became the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Canal by which name it is known today.
www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk /riversandcanals/rotherhamriverscanals.htm   (615 words)

  
 Sheffield and South Yorkshire New Junction Canal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Was a 12¼ mile, 7 lock, river navigation from Sleaford to the River Witham, via Kyme Eau.
Authorised by an Act of 1792, opened for navigation in 1794, no commercial traffic by 1878, Act of abandonment passed in 1881 but much of it navigable until the 1940s.
The swing and lift bridges on the rest of the waterway are electically operated by boaters (using a BW key) and a simple push button system.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Sheffield-and-South-Yorkshire-New-Junction-Canal.html   (1171 words)

  
 The Observer | Travel | Mike Holland: the week four route
It took the trade boom of the Napoleonic Wars to overcome the century-old resistance of Sheffield's mill owners and the greatest of the area's land barons, the Duke of Norfolk, to a plan to link the home of the master cutlers with the sea.
Traffic struggled on for another 50 years until the formation of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company in 1888 to lead somewhat of a fightback against the railways.
As a postscript, a record one million tonnes of freight was carried on the Navigation as late as 1951 and in 1974 British Waterways upgraded the line between Rotherham and Doncaster to European Class 2 barge standard.
observer.guardian.co.uk /travel/story/0,6903,687287,00.html   (423 words)

  
 The Doncaster Borough Council (North Bridge Relief Road) (Crossing of Navigable Waterway (Sheffield and South Yorkshire ...
The authoritative version is the Queen's Printer copy published by The Stationery Office Limited as the The Doncaster Borough Council (North Bridge Relief Road) (Crossing of Navigable Waterway (Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation River Don New Cut)) Scheme 1991 Confirmation Instrument 1993, ISBN 0110342798.
The Doncaster Borough Council (North Bridge Relief Road) (Crossing of Navi-gable Waterway (Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation River Don New Cut)) Scheme 1991 is hereby confirmed without modifications.
This Instrument may be cited as the Doncaster Borough Council (North Bridge Relief Road) (Crossing of Navigable Waterway (Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation River Don New Cut)) Scheme 1991 Confirmation Instrument 1993.
www.hmso.gov.uk /si/si1993/Uksi_19933195_en_1.htm   (390 words)

  
 YORKSHIRE - Online Information article about YORKSHIRE
None of these trihu_ taries is naturally navigable, but the Aire, Calder and Don are part canalized.
In the W. the county contains the headwaters of several streams of the W. slope of the Pennines, draining to the Irish Sea; of these the principal is the Ribble.
Lincoln and South Down, and crosses between the Cheviot and the Leicester.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /YAK_ZYM/YORKSHIRE.html   (4969 words)

  
 News - Sheffield Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
UNDER pressure Sheffield MP David Blunkett is facing calls to resign again after he admitted breakin...
The pollution – thought to be from oil which seeped into the river – was also discovered in the nearby Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Canal and as far downstream as Aldwarke Lock.
Sheffield Council has removed all large fish from Shire Brook Valley nature reserve in Hackenthorpe for the second year running on the grounds of public safety.
www.sheffieldtoday.net /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1215744   (537 words)

  
 Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation - information and photographs
The history of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation runs for 40 miles between Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and the River Trent, UK.
The Forgotten Canals of Yorkshire: Wakefield to Swinton
www.penninewaterways.co.uk /sheffield   (208 words)

  
 South Yorkshire & Chesterfield: Waterscape.com
Once a busy, deep canal carrying coal from the South Yorkshire coalfield, the Dearne and Dove is now derelict but can still be easily traced.
The last canal of the commercial age, the New Junction Canal dates from 1905 and runs for a perfectly straight 5.5 miles between the Aire and Calder Navigation and the South Yorkshire Navigations.
Rising in Yorkshire, in the midst of the beautiful Peak District National Park, the River Don flows for 70 miles through Sheffield and the Pennines until it meets the River Ouse at Goole.
www.waterscape.com /South_Yorkshire_&_Chesterfield/waterways   (376 words)

  
 The 1999 Tour Page 3
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, Thorne to Sheffield Basin.
The first structure on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation proper was Barnby Dun Swing Bridge an all electric affair on a busy main road.
The first few locks we had to empty but then waited for the descending boat, after that the locks were all set and we were left to our own devices, coming out of the top lock at 5.10pm.
www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /Tour_99/Tour3.html   (1175 words)

  
 Canal restoration news
The feasibility study is also supported by a grant from to the Rural Target Fund of the Objective 1 Programme for South Yorkshire funded by EAGGF and DEFRA.
We are grateful to the Yorkshire Rural Community Council for their support in obtaining this grant, an award of £5,000 or 10% of the feasibility study’s cost (whichever is the less) has been granted.
Derek Housley Chair of the Barnsley Dearne and Dove Canals Trust, (www.bddct.org.uk) said, “ the restoration of the “Yorkshire Waterways Link” has the potential for restoration to be a means to promote tourism, spur economic development and urban renewal in the areas that it passes through.
www.canaljunction.com /news/restore5.htm   (678 words)

  
 South Yorkshire Police in Sheffield South   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sheffield South News and Appeals Speed Cameras Sheffield First for Safety Sheffield City Council Health Authority
The police district of Sheffield South covers an area of approximately 33.2 square miles, comprising the southern half of the city of Sheffield.
As the Woodseats side borders with Sheffield Central Police District it covers parts of London Road and Ecclesall Road, which are busy commercial centres during the day and very popular in the evenings for drinking and socialising.
southyorks.police.uk /districts/sheffield_south   (417 words)

  
 Yorkshire Navigation Sales
Indeed, GPS technology forms the centerpiece of the many onboard navigation systems that are included in rental cars and many family vehicles.
The DOD is also charged with preventing the hostile use of GPS technology without unduly degrading or disrupting civilian uses of the technology.
on the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (Stainforth and Keadby Canal) at Keadby...
fast-gps.com /yorkshire-navigation-sales.html   (1123 words)

  
 Sheffield | South Yorkshire Bus Strike
Do they not think that Doncaster is worse off as we do not have the priveledge of having Super Tram although we have to subsidise it.
South Yorkshire bus workers have agreed to return to work today (10th August) after being on all-out strike for 20 days for better pay and conditions.
This strike is been the longest bus workers strike on the UK for 30 years.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/regions/sheffield/2004/07/295294.html   (786 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - Sheffield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The G8 Justice and Interior Ministers meeting in Sheffield discussed avenues for advancing the the so-called "war on terror", national security and combating international crime and illegal immigration, all of which are likely to have further negative impacts on civil liberties.
The third day of the Ministerial G8 meeting in Sheffield started with a banner drop and what was hopefully a rude awakening for the delgates at the Marriott Hotel in Nether Edge from a Rebel Alliance of RoRS and a squad from the Clown Army.
This year it was a benefit for Sheffield Archer Project, a charity providing support for the homeless, and the Intermediate Technology Development Group, an international charity working on practical ways to end poverty for people in need all over the world.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/regions/sheffield   (1949 words)

  
 Dearne & Dove Canal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It was also to have branches into the rich coal fields of Silkstone to the south west of Barnsley.
The original tunnel still survives and (in 1971) could still be found in the undergrowth to the south of the railway.
The small Elsecar Reservoir is situated a few hundred yards south west of the end of the branch in Elsecar.
www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/dearneanddovecanal.htm   (1759 words)

  
 IWA Individual Waterways - River Trent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
South Yorkshire and The Dukeries Branch – West Bank, Trent Falls to Cromwell Lock
The river connects with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Derwent Mouth, the Fossdyke Canal at Torksey, the Chesterfield Canal and River Idle at Stockwith and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation at Keadby.
In 1699 the first Act of Parliament was passed to improve this navigation, allowing boats to reach Burton-on-Trent.
www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/river_trent   (273 words)

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