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A Guide to the Driffield Navigation Peter Hardy 1983.
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3: Wansford Lock to Driffield
The infamous Wansford "fixed" bridge crosses the canal between here and Driffield is perhaps the most attractive section. Wansford Lock is still in a reasonable state of repair. The canal is paralleled by the Frodingham-Driffield road at this point and here the canal is popular with anglers. Principle catches, trout, perch, pike and roach. Day tickets are available from Wansford Post Office. Around Whin Hill Lock the canal presents an open aspect with views of Driffield to the west. The track across the lock leads to a trout farm. Turning sharply to the northwest the canal passes through Town Lock to enter Driffield Basin, a wide, deep section complete with cranes and warehouses. Once this basin was packed with keels unloading but now the warehouses have been attractively converted to flats and canoes are the most common craft. The area of grass along side the canal makes an appealing picnic site; DNAA holds occasional canal festivals here. Canal Head is about 6 and a half miles from Strucheon Hill Lock. As "capital of the Wolds" Driffield has all the facilities of a modern market town and good road and rail communications to all parts of eastern Yorkshire and beyond. The Bell Hotel in Driffield is now the regular meeting place for the present Commissioners.