Lehrerid
18-12-2005, 11:20 AM
Could anyone please enlighten me to changes to the river don network over its history. I am specifically interested in why its flow was changed away from the river Trent, which you would have thought gave better access to Hull and was its original path, and diverted up to Goole via the New Junction Canal.
This New Junction canal is also a mystery to me as some people have told me that the Dutch River and the New Junction Canal are one and the same, but i have a feeling there is much more to this story than that.
Even so on current maps the flow of the river Don is shown all the way to Goole following the Canal?? Yet if the original flow was to the Trent, who decided to rename this river and call the drain dug for the canal 'the river Don'.
Confused?!?!?!Please Help!
This New Junction canal is also a mystery to me as some people have told me that the Dutch River and the New Junction Canal are one and the same, but i have a feeling there is much more to this story than that.
Even so on current maps the flow of the river Don is shown all the way to Goole following the Canal?? Yet if the original flow was to the Trent, who decided to rename this river and call the drain dug for the canal 'the river Don'.
Confused?!?!?!Please Help!