Pipe Bridge Over The River Don Navigation - Tinsley, UK - Truss Bridges on Waymarking.com

The River Don Navigation
"The River Don Navigation was the result of early efforts to make the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, navigable between Fishlake and Sheffield. The Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden had re-routed the mouth of the river in 1626, to improve drainage, and the new works included provision for navigation, but the scheme did not solve the problem of flooding, and the Dutch River was cut in 1635 to link the new channel to Goole. The first Act of Parliament to improve navigation on the river was obtained in 1726, by a group of Cutlers based in Sheffield; the Corporation of Doncaster obtained an Act in the following year for improvements to the lower river. Locks and lock cuts were built, and, by 1751, the river was navigable to Tinsley.

The network was expanded by the opening of the Stainforth and Keadby Canal in 1802." link

This part of the navigation is on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal part of the overall River Don Navigation.

The bridge
The bridge is located between two canal locks, Jordans Lock and Holmes Lock.

The area along the River Don Navigation used to be heavily industrialised with a number of steelworks, factories and sewage works. In recent years many have closed down and the area has undergone some regeneration. This bridge carrying the pipe still remains.

It leads on the south side of the navigation to land containing sewage works.

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