Snakeholme Lock
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Snakeholme Lock is a brick chamber canal lock on the Driffield Navigation, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is notable in being a staircase lock, but only the upper lock is still used. It
Snakeholme lock, restored after many years of closure
Lower chamber of the staircase
River Hull
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The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull
Snakeholme Lock
…to get through without lowering the mast. Once regular trade started to use the new navigation, problems with low water were noticed. The tide on the River Hull does not easily push up the river due to sharp bends, and narrow sections, and so there was regularly not enough depth over the bottom gate cill. To…
The tidal barrier and the Millennium Bridge at the mouth of the river
Grovehill (Weel) Bridge, Beverley
The Hull and Barnsley Railway Bridge, built in 1885
Wilmington Bridge, now used as a cycleway and footbridge