Aire and Calder Navigation

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The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf canalised river
navigation
transport infrastructure
waterway
connectsTo Humber Estuary
surface form: Humber estuary

Leeds and Liverpool Canal
River Ouse
surface form: Ouse

River Aire
River Calder
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
constructionStart 1700
country England
currentUse angling
commercial freight
leisure cruising
recreational boating
waterside recreation
endPoint Aire Mouth
Airmyn
Goole
formerOwner Aire and Calder Navigation self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aire and Calder Navigation Company

Canal & River Trust
surface form: British Waterways
governedBy Canal & River Trust
hasFeature aqueducts
artificial channels
cuttings
flood locks
Goole docks
surface form: goole docks

knottingley and goole canal
locks
new junction canal
swing bridges
weirs
historicalUse coal transport
goods transport
industrial freight
improvedIn 1820s
1830s
length approximately 33 miles
locatedIn West Yorkshire
Yorkshire and the Humber
notableFor early use of compartment boats
large-scale coal barge traffic
role in Industrial Revolution in Yorkshire
opened 1704
passesThrough Castleford
Wakefield
regionServed Humber ports
Pennine industrial towns
startPoint Leeds

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Pennine waterways hasPart Aire and Calder Navigation
Leeds and Liverpool Canal connectsTo Aire and Calder Navigation
Goole connectedByWaterway Aire and Calder Navigation
Goole docks connectedToWaterway Aire and Calder Navigation
River Colne partOf Aire and Calder Navigation
subject surface form: River Colne (West Yorkshire)
this entity surface form: River Aire and Calder system
River Aire connectedTo Aire and Calder Navigation
River Aire partOf Aire and Calder Navigation
this entity surface form: Aire and Calder Navigation system
Aire and Calder Navigation formerOwner Aire and Calder Navigation self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Aire and Calder Navigation Company
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation connectsTo Aire and Calder Navigation
Calder and Hebble Navigation connectsTo Aire and Calder Navigation
Port of Goole connectedToWaterway Aire and Calder Navigation
River Ouse connectedWaterway Aire and Calder Navigation
Humber drainage basin hasPart Aire and Calder Navigation
this entity surface form: River Aire and Calder Navigation
Barnsley Canal connectsTo Aire and Calder Navigation