The Floods

you'd be surprised how far inland tidal stretches reach,the don is indeed tidal practically all the way to the east of donny..

the river trent is tidal all the way to cromwell lock (not far from the A1 at Winthorpe,near newark) and would be tidal even further inland had they not built a wier and lock at cromwell.You actually get seals travelling this far up stream.

when you go over the ouse on the M62 Bridge at Howden thats tidal and the tidal reaches there stretch even further inland

me and my mate were fishing once at Nayburn lock , years ago, and two seals appeared there,(nayburn is just south of york)

 

I thought my mate at work was pulling my leg when he said that if it wasn't for Dutch engineers in the 1600's Doncaster would be coastal.

 

If I remember correctly, the Wharfe is still tidal at Tadcaster (possibly further).

 

i cant remember exactly which town , but one of 'em down past hornsea on the east coast has a church and theres a piece on a wall and it tells you that the church used to be (sometime after the norman conquest era) 13 miles from the sea, you can now practically chuck a pebble from it into the north sea

 

No your mate was giving you the right info SD. I attended a Youth Club in Donny as a young lad
in a community building called the Vermuyden Institute. I was interested enough to know why it
was called that and was told it was named after the Dutch Engineer Cornelius Vermuyden, who
came to England to carry out land drainage schemes. He was hired to drain Hatfield Chase
an expanse of grassland to the east of Doncaster which had been used by the Royals for hunting .
His scheme wasn't entirely successful as he managed to flood Fishlake, Sykehouse and Snaith.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vermuyden

 

We learned about Vermuyden at school, though I’d have recalled none of it had I not just read that.

Interestingly the projections of rising sea levels due to global warming put lots of Donny back under the sea.

 

The embankment between Sprotborough and the Don is a different line.

the embankment for the line from Bentley pit that runs across the bottom of Scawthorpe is just about at street level in Sprotborough between the estate where Crusader Dr is and Cusworth Park.

 

Your just boring me now, and as for your toddler comment, picking another poster up on his spelling is massively mature just because he dared to correct you on event of flooding in the areas I said in the 60's and 70's, I did once rate you as a decent poster but seems

Don't start telling me where I live !!!
Haha only joking
Yes I know, theres a disused one too that runs the other way towards Bentley passed a long the bottom of cusworth passed the back of the range towards Bentley which is a lovely walk down to the flash at lower Sprotbrough