Pocklington Canal

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Pocklington Canal is a broad canal which runs for 9.5 miles (15.3 km) through nine locks from the Canal Head near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, to the River Derwent which it joins near East Cottingwith. Most of it lies within a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. The first proposals to build a canal linking the Humber Estuary date back as far as 1765. None of these were successful until 1812 when the Earl Fitzwilliam employed George Leather Junior to survey a proposed route. George Leather found that the initially proposed route was problematic but proposed an alternative route which was the one the canal eventually followed. The Pocklington Canal company was formed in 1814 and the canal gained its Act of parliament in 1815. Work started straight away and the canal was completed in 1818 at a cost of £32,695, a rare case of a canal not overrunning its cost estimate.

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