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Saltaire, Leeds, Woodlesford Lock, Hebden Bridge,
Sowerby Bridge, Standedge Tunnel & Vistor Centre,
Naburn, Pocklington, Sprotborough, Drakeholes
Are you looking for inspiring places to visit with the
family? Then look no further than your local canal or river.
This guide features a selection of our best waterside
places to visit in Yorkshire & North East – whatever the
weather! Each location includes a map, suggestions of
fun-packed activities you can do and useful information
on where to park, places to eat, toilets and boat trips.
Have a look
on our map
and find a little
adventure on
your doorstep!
1. Tees Barrage & Stockton
2. Ripon
3. Skipton
4. Bingley
5. Saltaire
6. Leeds
7. Woodlesford Lock
8. Hebden Bridge
9. Sowerby Bridge
10. Standedge Tunnel & Vistor
Centre
11. Naburn
12. Pocklington
13. Sprotborough
14. Drakeholes
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AINA Waterways
* This map shows waterways managed by members of the
Association of Inland Navigation Authorities (AINA). We have
not featured places to visit on waterways managed by these
organisations. There are other inland waterways that have not
been shown, the information on this map is for guidance only,
for accurate information please visit our website.
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Riverview Café
Princess of
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Tees Barrage
Stockton International
White Water
Centre
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station
River Cruises Tees
Barrage
Navigation Lock
Dipping pond
Visit
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Opened in1995, the Tees Barrage is one Little adventures
HM Bark Endeavour
the waterways wonders. It took four on your doorstep
years to build and involved diverting the
STAY SAFE:
Stay Away From mighty River Tees. Don’t miss it!
the Edge
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8km
A little bit of history
The Tees Barrage was built to improve the river’s
watersports facilities by making this stretch of the
water non-tidal. Four massive floodgates control the
flow of the river and prevent flooding. The Olympic-
class White Water Centre built alongside it, hosts major
watersports competitions. An awesome day out!
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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Little adventures
Ripon Canal Head &
on your doorstep
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Ripon Canal
This beautiful stretch of the Ripon Canal Rhodesfield Lock Bird
was derelict until restored and reopened sanctuary
in 1996. Now, bordered by trees and
wildflowers, it runs like a pretty green Ripon
ribbon through the city. Racecourse
Marina
Bellfurrows Lock
STAY SAFE:
Stay Away From
the Edge
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8km Boroughbridge
A little bit of history
The River Ure becomes difficult to navigate upstream
of Boroughbridge. So Ripon Canal, and other small
sections of canal along the Ure, was cut so that boats
could pass from Hull and York to Ripon. The main cargo
was coal from Yorkshire and flax for the Knaresborough
linen industry on the return industry.
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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Although the site is always
open the facilities and boat
trips may not be and some
may be chargeable. Please
Did you know?... check with local businesses
before setting out.
Our lock gates are handbuilt
by skilled carpenters in
our workshops in the West
Midlands and Yorkshire, from
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to discover lots of fun things to
do with the family.
© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18
Skipton
Woods
Discover
Skipton
Skipton is a beautiful market town
Skipton Castle
situated on the Leeds & Liverpool
Canal, the longest canal in Britain. Mill
Bridge
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Little adventures
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STAY SAFE:
Stay Away From
the Edge
Map not to scale: covers approx 1.4 miles/2.4km
A little bit of history
The Springs Branch leaves the Leeds & Liverpool Canal
in the centre of Skipton. It was built for Lord Thanet,
who lived in Skipton Castle and owned the limestone
quarries served by the branch. Stone was brought from
the quarries by horse drawn trams and loaded into
boats for the journey to Leeds.
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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1 2 3 trips may not be and some
may be chargeable. Please
check with local businesses
before setting out.
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to discover lots of fun things to
do with the family.
© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18
Five Rise
Sandbeds
Locks Café
1.5 miles/2.4km
& Crossflats
Lane
Viewing Beck
area
Explore Bingley Old Lock
Keeper’s Cottage
Five Rise Locks Start of
trails
Bingley Five Rise Locks are the Overflow channel
or ‘bywash’
most awesome feature on the
Leeds & Liverpool Canal. They are Five Rise Locks
the steepest staircase locks on
the longest canal in the country!
Old Blacksmith’s Forge
Little adventures
North Bog on your doorstep
NOTE
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Bingley Five Rise Locks built more than 200 years go,
are one of the ‘Seven Wonders of the Waterways’. The
staircase locks open directly from one to another, lifting
boats 18 metres (60 feet) up the valley along the Leeds
& Liverpool Canal.
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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• porridge oats check with local businesses
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• peas
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to discover lots of fun things to
do with the family.
© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Explore
Saltaire
Little adventures Saltaire is a textile village built
Dowley Gap Aqueduct on your doorstep on the River Aire and the Leeds
(1/2 mile/0.8km) & Liverpool Canal. It has World
& Bingley Heritage Status – that means it’s
as important as Stonehenge!
Saltaire Victoria Road
to Bingley Bridge & The Aire
QR trail Sculpture Trail
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Park
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Victoria Salts
Mill Salts Mill
STAY SAFE:
Stay Away From Road Bridge
the Edge
Shipley
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8kmA little bit of history
Saltaire is named after Victorian industrialist Sir Titus
Salt who sited his textile mills beside the Leeds &
Liverpool Canal and the River Aire (hence Salt-Aire). He
built the village with stone cottages, schools, hospitals
and churches for his workers. It was a far cry from the
slums where mill workers usually lived.
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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Allow 2-3 hours
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of a narrowboat? open the facilities and boat
trips may not be and some
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check with local businesses
before setting out.
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to discover lots of fun things to
do with the family.
© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Discover
Leeds Waterfront
Parts of Leeds
Leeds Station waterfront were once
almost derelict. Now
Brewery
Wharf
regenerated with vibrant
waterside cafés and
bars, a world-class
Leeds city
centre museum, art galleries
and public art, it’s a
great place to visit.
Armley Mills
Riv
& Kirkstall er A
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Royal Armouries
Aire & Calder
Navigation
Granary
Wharf
Leeds &
Liverpool Canal
Thwaite Mills
& Woodlesford
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on your doorstep 1
Navigation The Tetley
Leeds Dock
STAY SAFE:
Stay Away From
the Edge
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8kmA little bit of history
Leeds Dock, located on the Aire & Calder Navigation,
was once a vast complex of store yards and
warehouses busy offloading coal and goods from the
barges that plied this wide canal. It was a nerve centre
that provided a vital cross-Pennine link from Liverpool
to the North Sea via the Aire & Calder Navigation and
the Humber.
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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this visit
Can you name the different parts * Don’t forget:
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open the facilities and boat
1 2 3 trips may not be and some
may be chargeable. Please
check with local businesses
before setting out.
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Go to canalriverexplorers.org.uk ‘canal new
to discover lots of fun things to
do with the family.
© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Explore
Woodlesford Lock
Located just five miles from Leeds,
Woodlesford Lock on the Aire &
Calder Navigation, is one of the best
Thwaite Mills Fishponds Lock places to escape the city and enjoy
Museum country walks.
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Little adventures
on your doorstep Two Pointers
Lemonroyd Lock
Beechwood
and St Aidan’s
Centre
Nature Reserve
STAY SAFE: Village Midland Hotel
Stay Away From green & local facilities
the Edge
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8kmA little bit of history
The Aire & Calder Navigation was built to connect
Leeds to the Humber and the North Sea. Unique to this
navigation were ‘Tom Puddings’, huge open containers
for carrying coal, linked together and pushed along by
tugs. The waterway still carries commercial traffic but
Best of all today, it makes its way through peaceful countryside.
it’s FREE!*
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© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Explore
Hebden Bridge
Discover this lovely old textile
mill town on the Rochdale Canal.
The spectacular scenery and
quirky, independent shops,
Hardcastle galleries and cafés in Hebden
Crags (NT) Bridge, ensure a great day out.
Heptonstall River 1 mile
Stubbing Hebden
Lock House A64 Packhorse Town Centre
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Upper Lock Park
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Black Pit
Centre
Black Pit Lock
Little adventures Aqueduct
on your doorstep River
Calder
Hebden Sowerby
Bridge Bridge
STAY SAFE:
Stay Away From
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8km the EdgeA little bit of history
Hebden Bridge was, and still is, famous for the
production of corduroy. It was once known as ‘trouser
town’! Packhorses took the cloth from the mills to the
canal, and from there to Sowerby Bridge or Lancashire.
Many of the old mills still stand, but most are now
converted into studios and workshops.
Best of all
it’s FREE!*
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by skilled carpenters in trips may not be and some
may be chargeable. Please
our workshops in the West check with local businesses
Midlands and Yorkshire, from before setting out.
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unique and can take up to a
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updates a st.
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to discover lots of fun things to
do with the family.
© Canal & River Trust Charity no. 1146792
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Tuel Lane Lock Little adventures
Christ
Church Shire Cruisers
on your doorstep
Wharf
Hebden Street holiday
Bridge boat hire Halifax
Tuel Lane
A58
Tunnel
Calder & Hebble Navigat
i on
Rochdale
Canal
Brighouse
River Calder
Footbridge
Explore
Sowerby Bridge Sowerby Bridge Wharf
STAY SAFE:
Sowerby Bridge Wharf is where two waterways
Stay Away From meet on the edge of the Pennines. Once a
the Edge major industrial centre, now trendy pubs and
cafes occupy many of the old canal buildings.
Map not to scale: covers approx 0.5 miles/0.8kmA little bit of history
Sowerby Bridge Wharf was a vital link in the chain of
waterways stretching from the Humber to the Mersey.
Here, cargo was transferred from long boats called
Mersey flats to the shorter Yorkshire keels because
they were too big for the locks on the Calder & Hebble
Navigation.
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Discover
Standedge Tunnel
Standedge Tunnel is the longest,
highest and oldest canal tunnel
Tunnel End to be built in Britain. It’s one of
reservoir the wonders of the waterways.
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shovels and muscle power. It took 16 years, and after
many financial and constructional difficulties, opened in
1811. More than three miles long, there’s no towpath so
boats were ‘legged’ through. Phew!
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Pocklington Wellington
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Pocklington Canal is a broad canal that runs for almost
ten miles (15.3 km) through nine locks. It was built to
allow Yorkshire keels, which operated on the River
Derwent, to use it. In the 1960s, the canal was in serious
decline but thanks to a team of dedicated volunteers,
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Old pumphouse
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The Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation runs from
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Sprotbrough Locks is a peaceful spot surrounded by
woodlands and a nature reserve – a Site of Special
Scientific Interest (SSSI). It’s a wonderful place to escape
city life and enjoy country walks and easy bike rides.
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Little adventures
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cheese between Chesterfield and the River Trent. On
this canal, boats weren’t painted with traditional ‘rose
and castles’ patterns, and boatmen lived ‘ashore’ with
their families rather than on boats.
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18Explore
Naburn Locks
Part of the River Ouse navigation, Naburn
Locks were once busy with barges
Naburn transporting goods to and from York and Hull
village and beyond. Today it’s the perfect place for
country walks and spotting wildlife.
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The first lock at Naburn was built in 1757 – one of the
earliest examples of canal engineering in the country.
In Victorian times, a larger lock was built alongside
the original one to allow large freight barges to pass
through. It was opened with much ado by Queen
Victoria’s grandson, Prince Albert Victor.
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A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped produce these. 02/18For more inspiring places
to visit look out for our
other guides.
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