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DOUGLAS NAVIGATION.
(SEE LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL.)

DRIFFIELD NAVIGATION.
7 George III. Cap. 97, Royal Assent 20th May, 1767.

41 George III. Cap. 134, Royal Assent 2nd July, 1801.

57 George III. Cap. 64, Royal Assent 7th July, 1817.

THIS navigation commences at Aike Beck Mouth, in the River Hull, about four miles and a half north of Beverley, and half a mile above the place where the Leven Canal falls into that river. Its course is northwardly, passing Baswick Steer and Emmotland, to Fisholme Clough, to which place the navigation is continued along the original course of the Hull River, excepting in one instance, where a cut of three quarters of a mile in length is made near Hempholme, for the purpose of avoiding a circuitous part of the river. From Fisholme Clough, the remainder of the navigation to Great Driffield, is by an entire canal of nearly five miles and a half in length. The river part of this navigation, to Fisholme Clough, is five miles and three quarters; but the navigation is extended up Frodingham Beck, to the bridge, a distance of nearly a mile. From thence there is a private navigable cut made to Foston Mills, by the proprietor thereof, which is about three quarters of a mile in length.

The first act relating to this navigation was passed in the 7th of George III. and is entitled, An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Hull and Frodingham Beck, from Aike Beck Mouth to the Clough, on the East Corner of Fisholme, and for extending the said Naviqation, from the said Clough, into or near the town of Great Driffield, in the East Riding of the county of York; in the preamble of which it is stated, that it was then navigable to Fisholme, but might be greatly improved. Accordingly commissioners were appointed by this act to carry the necessary measures into effect, and to cut the canal to Driffield; for which purpose, they are empowered to borrow any sum of money, on security of the rates and duties, and, for the repayment of which, and legal interest, the act empowered them to demand the following tonnage rates.