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New Junction Canal
legend 0.0m Aire and Calder Navigation 0.2m Went aqueduct 1.0m Sykehouse lift bridge 1.5m Kirk Lane lift bridge 1.8m Sykehouse swing bridge 1.8m Sykehouse Lock 2.4m Smallhedge swing bridge 3.5m Kirkhouse Green lift bridge 4.2m Top Lane lift bridge 4.6m Low Lane swing bridge 5.1m River Don aqueduct 5.5m Stainforth and Keadby Canal Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

The guillotine gates protecting the aqueduct over the River Don

Sykehouse Lock, with the swing bridge crossing its centre

The New Junction Canal is a canal in South Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SYN).

Authorised in 1891 and completed on 2 January 1905, the New Junction was the last canal to be built in England for commercial purposes. The total cost of construction was £300,000. It links two other parts of the S&SYN (the River Don Navigation and the Stainforth and Keadby Canal) with the Aire and Calder Navigation (Knottingley Canal). It runs in a completely straight line for 5½ miles northwards from Stainforth to the Knottingly Canal. It has one lock, five swing or lift bridges and is carried across two aqueducts.

For the boater, the most notable feature is the complicated operation of Sykehouse Lock. The lock is automated but it cannot be operated unless the manually operated swing bridge over the top of it is already open.

See also

UK Waterways portal

• Canals of the United Kingdom
• History of the British canal system

References

External links

• Pennine Waterways - New Junction Canal
• The canal on an OS map

Coordinates: 53°38′15″N 1°02′08″W / 53.6374°N 1.0355°W / 53.6374; -1.0355