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A Guide to the Driffield Navigation Peter Hardy 1983.
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1: Struncheon Hill to Frodingham Beck
The visitor by boat will arrive up the Tidal River Hull at Struncheon Hill lock, the bottom gates of which were repaired in 1982. Originally a pair or "staircase" lock it was designed to pass the "average" Yorkshire keel. (58' x 15'-6'' over top gate cill). Above the lock the broad, deep straight canal is part of the "new navigation" of 1801. Tophill Low pumping station on the left is a filtration plant for the Yorkshire Water Authority. When leaving the lock beware of the weir on the right. A water point is available at opposite the cottage adjacent to Bethel's swing bridge, the mechanism for which is on the towpath side. The winding lane from the bridge leads to Brandsburton, 3 miles away. Above Bethel's Bridge the canal meanders through flat grassing meadows to the junction with West Beck. This branch is Navigable, to Corps Landing, turning however is restricted to boats of 45 feet in length check with Bethel's Bridge Boat Club before navigating this section.