Yorkshire Ring

The Yorkshire Ring is a canal ring in South and West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1905 with the construction of the New Junction Canal. It lasted for under thirty years before the closure of part of the Dearne and Dove Canal and subsequently the complete Barnsley Canal. Both these canals are currently under restoration.

Timeline

;1793:The possibility of a complete ring is realised when the Barnsley Canal and Dearne & Dove Canal are authorised.;1804:The Dearne and Dove Canal is completed. [ [http://www.bddct.org.uk/history/history_b.html Barnsley, Dearne and Dove Canals Trust: history page] ] Only a short section of the ring remains to be constructed between the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and the Aire and Calder Navigation.;1888:The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company is created, and eventually succeeds in taking over control of the River Don Navigation, Stainforth and Keadby Canal, Dearne and Dove Canal, Barnsley Canal and the Sheffield Canal from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company in 1895. [ [http://www.waterways.org.uk/Waterways/PrincipalNavigations/SheffieldandSouthYorkshire-2 Waterways.org Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation] ] ;1892:Construction of the New Junction Canal is authorised.;1896:Construction on the New Junction Canal starts.;1905:The New Junction Canal is completed [Nicholson Waterways Guide, Volume 6, 2006, ISBN 0-00-721114-7] thus also completing the Yorkshire Ring.;1934:The ring is broken again by the closure of the central section of the Dearne and Dove Canal.;1953:The Barnsley Canal is officially closedHugh McKnight [1981] "The Shell Book of Inland Waterways", David and Charles] ;1961:The Dearne and Dove Canal is also closed;1984:There is possibility of the complete ring being resurrected by the Barnsley Canal Group which has been formed with the intention of restoring the Barnsley and Dearne & Dove Canals. [ [http://www.bddct.org.uk/home.html Barnsley, Dearne and Dove Canals Trust: The Trust: Potted history] ]

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