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The Calder and Hebble Navigation is a Broad ( i. e. with locks and bridgeholes ) inland waterway in West Yorkshire, England, which has remained navigable since it was opened.
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The shortest lock on the main network is Salterhebble Middle Lock on the Calder and Hebble Navigation, at about long.
In the town centre is a mooring basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
Brighouse's industry received a boost through the construction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation, started in 1757 by the engineer John Smeaton.
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 ).
File: Calder and Hebble Brighouse basin. jpg | Brighouse Basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation
The aim of the Calder and Hebble Navigation was to extend navigation west ( upstream ) from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge near Halifax.
John Eyes of Liverpool surveyed the route, and presented a scheme for a navigation which would use the River Calder from Wakefield to its junction with the River Hebble, follow the Hebble to Salterhebble bridge, and then follow the Halifax Brook to reach Halifax.
It included the construction of 24 locks, 21 on the Calder and three on the Hebble, and nearly of cuts, including one of at Horbury.
Having borrowed £ 56, 000, factions arose within the Commissioners, with some wanting to stop at Brooksmouth, where the Rivers Hebble and Calder meet, and others wanting to raise more money and complete the scheme.
The Commissioners felt unable to borrow more money, and so a second Act of Parliament was obtained on 21 April 1769, which formally created the Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
Before the Act, the scheme had been known as the Calder Navigation or Upper Calder Navigation, and this was the first use of the Calder and Hebble title.
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 Manchester and Leeds Railway company, which had approached the Calder and Hebble in 1836, but had been rebuffed, opened their line between 1839 and 1841.
The importance of the Calder and Hebble as a through route makes one notorious feature of the canal very significant: its short locks.
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.
Calder and Navigation
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.
By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield.
Calder and is
* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
* 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
But if the dialog is followed closely, Casssius ’ recognition of what he has to do, and how he has to coordinate the interaction of pieces of his “ Calder ” mobiles, is perfectly clear.
Outside the tower, facing George Street, there is a large abstract steel sculpture by American sculptor Alexander Calder.
Both players were finalists for the Calder Memorial Trophy, which is awarded to the NHL's best rookie.
Another monster is supposed to have dwelt in Loch Calder near the castle.
Sebastopol is situated on the edge of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, which is fed by Santa Rosa Creek and other tributaries, including three minor tributaries within the city limits -- Zimpher Creek, Calder Creek and Witter Creek.
The Sturt Highway passes through the northern part of the park, but most of the park is in the remote area between the Sturt Highway and the Mallee Highway, west of the Calder Highway.
It is situated on the River Calder, east of Halifax in the Pennines.
Calder is a Scottish name and may refer to:
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.
Another quirk of the Calder and Hebble locks is the handspike, a length of timber shaped at one end to provide a comfortable two-handed grip.
The approach down from Earlsheaton through the Wakefield Road cutting, constructed in 1830, is dramatic with the view of the town centre nestling in the Calder Valley opening up as you descend.
Elland is a market town in Calderdale, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Halifax, by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
Elland is served by the Calder and Hebble Navigation, opened to the town in the late 16th century to serve the growing industrialisation of the Calder Valley.
Part of the river is canalised, and is known as the Aire and Calder Navigation.
Calder and Broad
The Calder and Hebble Navigation, which connects to the Navigation at Wakefield, allows boats to reach the Huddersfield Broad and Narrow Canals, and the Rochdale Canal.
The canals are linked at the western ( Lancashire ) end by the Ashton Canal and at the eastern ( Yorkshire ) end by the Huddersfield Broad Canal and a length of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
** Rochdale Canal, Calder and Hebble Navigation, Huddersfield Broad Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Ashton 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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