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Aire & Calder Navigation - Selby Section

Description: This consists of a navigable length of the River Aire plus the Selby Canal and forms a link between the A&CN main line at Bank Dole and the River Ouse at Selby.

History: Cutting of the Selby Canal started in early 1775, built by William Jessop early in his career and opened in 1778.
For more details see the History page.

Waterway Group: This waterway is part of the Aire and Calder Navigation and River Aire

Navigation Authority: MD's Office: Northern Waterways, General Manager: Yorkshire Waterways, Fearns Wharf, Neptune Street, Leeds LS9 8PB: Telephone 0113 281 6800 : Fax 0113 281 6886 :

Rainbow over Selby Basin

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Related Books

• The Canals of Yorkshire and North East England (1) by Charles Hadfield, Edition: Volume 1, ISBN: 0 7153 5719 0, 254 pages, Published by David & Charles, in 1972, Order now from .
• Yorkshire's River Aire by J Ogden, 128 pages, Published by Terrence Dalton Ltd, in 1976, Tales past and present from this river..
• Nicholson/Ordnance Survey Guide to the waterways - 6 by Not known, ISBN: 978-0-00-728166-4, 190 pages, Published by Nicholson, in 2009, Nottingham, York & the North East. Includes the Aire & Calder, Chesterfield, Pocklington, Derwent, Fossdyke, Witham, Ouse, Ure, Rippon, Selby, Sheffield & South Yorkshire and Trent navigations.. Order now from .
• The Canal & River Sections of the Aire & Calder Navigation by Mike Taylor, ISBN: 1 903425 37 9, 144 pages, Published by Wharncliffe Books, in 2003, A pictorial history of the waterways with the aid of strip maps dating from the 1930s.. Order now from .

Related photographs

• Aire & Calder Navigation - Selby Section: Selby Lock No 4 Lock Keeper guiding boat
• Aire & Calder Navigation - Selby Section: Selby Lock No 4
• Aire & Calder Navigation - Selby Section: Selby Lock No 4 Rainbow over narrowboat

Related External Web Sites

• Banks Hire Boats Based in Selby.
• Selby Boat Centre Boat Centre Services, Service Station, Moorings, Chandlery, Boat Brokerage and Engineering & Repairs

Related Cruising Logs

• 15th September 1995
• 28th May 1996
• 7th June 1996
• 22nd June 1998
• 4th July 1998
• 7th July 2000

Other Related Pages

• Cruising Times

Lock Sizes and maximum craft dimensions: Length 78 foot 6 inches, beam 16 foot 6 inches. NOTE: For more details of maximum lock and craft sizes and the basis of these figures see Craft and Lock Sizes Page

Aire & Calder Navigation - Selby Section: Table of distances			Miles	Locks	Navigable (N)	Grid ref	OS Map No
Bank Dole Junction	Junction with Aire & Calder Main Line Aire and Calder Navigation Main Line junction at Knottingley.		0	0	N	SE508239	105
Bank Dole Lock No 1			0.4	1	N	SE512239	105
Beal Bridge	Beal Bridge Wharf		2.5	1	N	SE532255	105
Beal Lock No 2	New landing pontoon down stream of lock installed winter 1995/6.		2.8	2	N	SE535255	105
Birkin Wharf			3.8	2	N	SE542262	105
River Aire Junction	Junction with River Aire Flood Lock No 3 and Selby Canal commencement		6.5	2	N	SE570264	105
Haddlesey Flood Lock No 3			6.5	3	N	SE571264	105
Paper House Bridge			7.3	3	N	SE573275	105
Gateforth Landing			7.8	3	N	SE576284	105
Burton Bridge			8.5	3	N	SE585290	105
Burn Bridge	A19 road bridge		9.3	3	N	SE597295	105
Brayton Bridge			10.4	3	N	SE610303	105
Selby Bridge	A1041 road bridge		11.3	3	N	SE618316	105
Selby Lock No 4	Junction with River Ouse (Yorkshire) River Ouse junction		11.8	4	N	SE622322	105

NOTE: N and U in the Navigable column above indicates that the node is navigable or unnavigable. If a D appears here it means that navigation is difficult or restricted to smaller craft.

 

Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.