Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
A section of the lock flight up to Sheffield
Specifications
Navigation authority	Canal and River Trust
History
Original owner	(Took over existing waterways)
Date of act	1889
Date of first use	1895
Geography
Start point	Sheffield
End point	Keadby or Aire and Calder Navigation
Connects to	River Trent, Aire and Calder Navigation

v t e Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
Legend
River Ouse Ocean lock, Goole Docks  A161  Goole Rawcliffe Bridge  M18  motorway R Aire, A&C, Dutch River  A614  Newbridge Link to River Aire, Turnbridge Aire and Calder Navigation River Went Sykehouse Lock New Junction Canal Fishlake River Don Stainforth Side Lock Stainforth and Keadby Canal Bramwith Lock Ea Beck Thorpe Marsh Railway bridges Barnby Dun lift bridge Kirk Sandall pipe bridge Kirk Sandall Railway bridges Long Sandall Lock Chappell Drive Bridge  A19  St Georges Bridge Friars Gate Bridge Railway bridges North Bridge Doncaster Town Lock River Cheswold Weir Newtons Farm Footbridge Warmsworth East Viaduct Warmsworth West Viaduct  A1(M)  Don Viaduct Sprotbrough Lock Sprotbrough Bridge Sprotbrough Weir Rainbow Bridge Conisbrough Viaduct site of Conisbrough lock Earth Centre Bridge River Dearne Mexborough Low Lock  A6023  Pasture and Grey's bridges Mexborough Top Lock Mexborough BBCS Flour Mill Mexborough Station Road bridge Mexborough Double Bridges Swinton Talbot Road Bridge Waddington Lock Swinton Junction (Dearne and Dove Canal) Kilnhurst Burton Ings Bridge Kilnhurst Station Road Bridge Kilnhurst Cut Kilnhurst Flood Lock and weir Thrybergh (rail) Bridge Don (rail) Bridge Steelworks access (road) bridge Aldwarke Lock  A6123  Aldwarke Lane Aldwarke Weir, Wash Lane Bridge Eastwood Lock Eastwood Footbridge Bailey Bridge Greasbrough Canal  A633  Rawmarsh Rd & Grafton Bridges Greasbrough Road Bridge  A630  Centenary Way (N) Interchange Footbridge Interchange Car Park road bridge Rotherham Cut Bridge Street & Chantry Bridges Forge Island Towpath Footbridge Forge Island Footbridge Masbrough Weir Forge Island Car Park road bridge Rotherham Lock Corporation Bridge  A630  Centenary Way (S) River Rother Lockhouse Bridge Millmoor Lane Ickles Lock Midland Railway Bridge (E) Midland Railway Bridge (W) Holmes Cut and Ickles Weir Holmes Lock Jordans Lock Blackburn Meadows STW outflow Jordans Weir Jordans Bridge + Holmes Bridge MS&L railway bridge Halfpenny Bridge Site of Tinsley Wharf Tinsley Locks (3)  M1  motorway Tinsley Locks (8)  A6102  Ring Road Weirs (5)  B6083  bridge,  B6085  aqueduct Victoria Basin, Sheffield Canal River Don

The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.

Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 27 locks.^[1] It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation.

The system consisted of five parts, four of which are still open to navigation today:-

• The River Don Navigation
• The Sheffield Canal (effectively abandoned in the early 1970s but revitalised since the 1990s)
• The Stainforth and Keadby Canal
• The New Junction Canal
• The Dearne and Dove Canal (closed 1961)