at Leven Lock End
Photographic Cruise up the River Hull - part 6: Leven Lock End. Photographs from a Cruise up the River Hull from Hull Bridge to Bethell's Bridge on 27th August 2000, from the Narrow Boat Tame Valley on its return to the Driffield Navigation. Part 6 A quick look at the derelict lock at the end of Leven Canal.
The pictures below show the disused Leven Lock and the start of the Canal where it joined the River Hull. The Leven Canal is 3¼ miles long. The lock connected the canal with the River Hull. Hopefully one day the lock and the canal will be restored.
Leven Canal was opened in 1802, having been cut by the order of Mrs. Bethell, Lady of the Manor. The 3 mile long canal started at the River Hull and was constructed to allow barges to reach the granaries and warehouses at Canal Head in Leven village. One of the original two warehouses built at the canal basin in 1825 still remains.
The lock chamber blocked by a concrete structure containing a sluice.
Looking down the lock chamber, which had three sets of gates.
All that remains of one of the bottom gates.
Looking from the lock, The Leven Canal which is below the level of the River Hull.
Looking into the lock chamber from the Leven Canal end towards the flood
bank which now isolates the lock from the River Hull. with the sluice in the center of the chamber.
The top of the lock chamber, the recess for the second set of gates can be seen. Beyond this is the recess for the top set of gates which opened in the opposite direction.