Only the Manchester Ship Canal and the Aire and Calder Canal bucked this trend.

The route started at Lake Lock, Stanley, on the Aire & Calder Navigation, near Wakefield, and ran to Outwood, a distance of approximately.

* Aire and Calder Navigation

* Aire and Calder Navigation

While the Aire and Calder Navigation improved links to the east for Leeds, links to the west were limited.

The Calder and Hebble Navigation links Brighouse with Wakefield ( junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation ), Mirfield ( junction with the Huddersfield Broad Canal ) and Sowerby Bridge ( junction with the Rochdale Canal ).

By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield.

In 1806, the Company agreed with the Aire and Calder Canal to replace the lock at Fall Ing with a new cut and a pair of locks, the work to be jointly funded.

With the Aire and Calder Canal rebuilding its main line, the Calder and Hebble sought an Act of Parliament to effectively abandon the river, but this was modified, as the needs of mill owners and others who owned property on the river banks were recognised.

The Aire and Calder Navigation objected to the lease, and in April 1847, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General ruled that it was illegal, and must cease.

Soon afterwaards, the Aire and Calder offered to lease the canal itself, and the agreement started in September.

After the Aire and Calder's lease expired in 1885, the Navigation Company again took charge, rebuilt many of the bridges, and established the Calder Carrying Company.

The Navigation starts in Wakefield, where there is an end-on junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation and runs upstream through Mirfield, after which there is a junction with the Huddersfield Broad Canal, to arrive at Sowerby Bridge, where there is another end-on junction, this time with the Rochdale Canal.

* The Aire and Calder Navigation carries boats to Leeds, and ( via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal ), to Lancashire

The canal was built to accept Yorkshire Keels coming up the Aire and Calder Navigation.

The locks on the Aire and Calder and the lower Calder and Hebble ( below Broad Cut Locks at Calder Grove ) have since been lengthened, and can accommodate boats which are 120 ft by 17. 5 ft ( 36. 6m x 5. 3m ), but the shortest locks on the upper Calder and Hebble force boats longer than about to lie diagonally in the locks.

To the north the River Calder joins the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation canal.

The recently finished Calder and Hebble Navigation proposed to build a canal from Wakefield to the Dutch River, which would bypass the Calder completely, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal supported a Leeds to Selby canal, which would bypass the Aire.

As early as the late 17th century, the Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble navigations had been canalised, allowing navigation from Leeds to the Humber Estuary, whereas the River Don Navigation connected Sheffield to the Humber.

He assisted Smeaton with the Calder and Hebble and the Aire and Calder navigations in Yorkshire.

* Short boats ( on Northern canals such as Leeds & Liverpool, Calder & Hebble, Aire and Calder Navigation )

The original purpose of the canal was to connect Huddersfield to the other Yorkshire waterways: that is, to the Aire and Calder Navigation via the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

Finally, at Sowerby Bridge, its connection with the Calder and Hebble gives boats access to all the north-eastern waterways including the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, and the rivers Ouse and Trent ( and, for boaters who wish to do a " ring ", the eastern ends of the Huddersfield Narrow and Leeds / Liverpool canals ).

** Rochdale Canal, Calder and Hebble Navigation, Aire and Calder Navigation, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Bridgewater Canal

** Calder and Hebble Navigation, Aire and Calder Navigation, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Rochdale Canal, Ashton Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Huddersfield Broad Canal

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In 1817, there was a proposal for an Aire and Dun Canal, to connect Knottingley to the Dutch River at Newbridge, with a branch to Doncaster, and another for a Went and Wakefield Canal, to connect Cold Hiendley on the Barnsley Canal to Newbridge on the Don.

The Barnsley Canal is a canal that ran from Barnby Basin, through Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England to a junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield.

In July 1792, the Aire and Calder Canal Company asked William Martin, who was the manager of the canal, to prepare plans for a link from near Wakefield to the Barnsley mines.

The Aire and Calder scheme foresaw a healthy trade in coal and manufactured goods from Barnsley to the Aire and Calder, and agricultural lime from Knottingley in the reverse direction.

Martin and the Aire and Calder's resident engineers surveyed the route, and at a public meeting held on 20 September 1792, the canal engineer William Jessop suggested that the line from just below Wakefield to Barnsley and Silkstone could be built for approximately £ 50, 000.

They quickly offered to pass the canal on to the Aire and Calder Company, and to buy the Dearne and Dove Canal, but although they took over the Dearne and Dove Canal from 1 January 1846, they dropped their ideas for the Barnsley Canal.

The Barnsley Canal Company then tried to arrange a lease with the Aire and Calder, but negotiations foundered.

Faced with a dilemma, the Barnsley and the Aire and Calder companies negotiated, and the result was the Barnsley Canal Transfer Act of 1871, which authorised the takeover of the canal by the Aire and Calder, the replacing of ten of the twelve Walton locks by an inclined plane, and protection of the water supply at Barugh.

The restored canal would follow the original line from the Aire and Calder Navigation to Barnsley, where a new marina would be built near to the location of Barugh locks.

At the same time the Aire & Calder Navigation company was considering a canal from Wakefield to Barnsley.

In the early 1820s, several proposals were made to build additional tramroads and reservoirs, but the plans were opposed by the Barnsley Canal and the Aire and Calder.

The Barnsley Canal Group was formed in 1984, initially with the intention of attempting to secure the restoration of the Barnsley Canal from the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield to the town of Barnsley.

** Aire and Calder Navigation, Dearne and Dove Canal, Barnsley Canal, River Don Navigation, New Junction Canal

Around 1850, he decided to build a mill large enough to consolidate his textile manufacture in one place, but he " did not like to be a party to increasing that already over-crowded borough ", and bought land three miles from the town in Shipley next to the River Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Midland Railway and began building in 1851.

It is situated on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

The Aire below Haddesley was bypassed by the opening of the Selby Canal in 1778.

Those opposing the scheme were placated by a clause which ensured the Aire to Airmyn and the Selby Canal would be maintained.

In 1905, the New Junction Canal connected the Aire and Calder to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation near Stainforth.

It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and ( via the New Junction Canal ) the Aire and Calder Navigation.

In addition, the Dearne and Dove Canal would be dredged, so that compartment boats, like those on the Aire and Calder, could be used for the transport of coal.

They were also faced with the prospect of funding their half of the New Junction Canal, to provide the connection with the Aire and Calder Navigation.

Saltaire is a Victorian model village within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Shipley is a town in West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, north of Bradford and north-west of Leeds.

Baildon is situated on a hill to the north of the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.