page_title: Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
hierarchical_section_title: Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Heading towards the navigable River Don.
context_page_description: The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation is a system of navigable inland waterways in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.
  Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles and has 27 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and the Aire and Calder Navigation.
  The system consisted of five parts, four of which are still open to navigation today:-
  The River Don Navigation
  The Sheffield Canal
  The Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  The New Junction Canal
  The Dearne and Dove Canal
context_section_description: The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.
  Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 27 locks.  It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation.
  The system consisted of five parts, four of which are still open to navigation today:-
  The River Don Navigation
  The Sheffield Canal (effectively abandoned in the early 1970s but revitalised since the 1990s)
  The Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  The New Junction Canal
  The Dearne and Dove Canal (closed 1961)
caption: A section of the lock flight up to Sheffield
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