CALDER & HEBBLE NAVIGATION

摘要

Our river-based waterways come in variety of forms. On the one hand there are what I would term 'navigable rivers', like the Thames or the Severn; by contrast, Yorkshire's Calder & Hebble Navigation is more what would be classed a 'river navigation'. Am I being pedantic? Possibly. Is this an official distinction? Possibly not. But when, in its upper reaches, you travel for six miles through 12 locks without ever cruising along a single yard of actual river, you realise you're in a rather different style of inland waterway when compared to (say) the Severn, where mile upon mile of natural river reaches are interrupted by just the odd short lock cut and adjacent weir.