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Latitude: 53.7093 / 53°42'33"N
Longitude: -1.9042 / 1°54'15"W
OS Eastings: 406417
OS Northings: 423652
OS Grid: SE064236
Mapcode National: GBR HT4K.J2
Mapcode Global: WHB8N.Q1D7
Plus Code: 9C5WP35W+P8
Entry Name: Lock Number 1 Onto Sowerby Basin, Sowerby Bridge
Listing Date: 19 July 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1299854
English Heritage Legacy ID: 339302
ID on this website: 101299854
Location: Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX6
County: Calderdale
Electoral Ward/Division: Sowerby Bridge
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Halifax
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Sowerby Bridge Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Lock
SOWERBY BRIDGE ROCHDALE CANAL,
SE 0623-0723
Sowerby Bridge
13/175 Lock No 1 onto Sowerby
Basin
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GV II
Canal lock. c1798. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Large blocks of coursed stone,
quoins and some upper blocks punch-dressed. Recesses in each side wall at either
end for lock gates (removed) and at lower (east) end for a 2nd pair of gates. At
upper end lock-gate recesses have culvert entrances and iron buffers are attached
to the top of the round-cornered entrance walls. The Rochdale Canal was opened
up in sections between 1798 and 1804. The line was originally surveyed by James
Brindley in 1776, resurveyed by John Rennie in 1791, and construction was finally
supervised by William Jessop (engineer) and William Crossley (resident engineer).
The idea of having a second pair of gates at one end of the lock was that whilst
the lock was large enough to hold the 74' x 14'2" x 4' craft coming from the
Manchester end of the canal, when the shorter (57'6" x 14') craft from the Calder
and Hebble Navigation went through the inner gate could be used, so shortening the
lock and requiring less water (50 tons of water could be saved on each filling/
emptying). However, it is not certain that this system was actually put into
practice (Parry, p64).
Parry, Trans-Pennine Heritage, Hill, People and Transport (1981).
Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce official Tourist Guide.
Listing NGR: SE0641723652
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