River Don Navigation
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river-don-navigation-186-4138351
title:
River Don Navigation
text:
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
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description:
Waterway navigation in South Yorkshire, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Don_Navigation
date created:
2007-09-02T16:01:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T22:08:42Z
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