Talk:River Don, Yorkshire

message: I am not convinced the details of Borough Bridge are right, as the National Monuments Record (see ref) gives the date of the current bridge at 1856, whereas the article says it was washed away in 1864 and replaced by an iron bridge, which was presumably replaced by the current bridge after that. Bob1960evens (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the details of the iron bridge refer to the iron bridge just below Borough Bridge. The interpretation panel next to it states that it was washed away in 1864, was replaced by another iron bridge, which was replaced in 1921 by the present iron bridge. It also states that Borough bridge was started in 1853, and withstood the flood. Bob1960evens (talk) 13:51, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borough Bridge Details 

message: I have removed refs which pointed to other wikipedia articles, as they should just be wikilinks. In some cases the articles had good refs for the points being made, so I have used those refs. It is difficult to know whether the Sheffield History Forum is a reliable source, according to Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. For Abyssinia bridge, there are a couple of books mentioned on the forum, which I might try to track down at the library. Bob1960evens (talk) 12:05, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I think we need to reduce the number of wikilinks, as recommended by WP:Linking#Repeated links. Great Sheffield Flood, Five Weirs Walk, Cobweb Bridge and Meadowhall Shopping Centre of linked far too many times. I wonder if the Flood might be better handled by a more general note in the introduction to bridges, which could be linked to Dale Dike Dam and Great Sheffield Flood, and subsequent usage could be simplified. Bob1960evens (talk) 14:26, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Bridges" section now cross-referenced from "Flooding" section and the excessive Wikilinks to the Great Sheffield Flood reduced. Davebevis (talk) 08:51, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikilinks 

message: The Godfrey Edition OS map of Attercliffe (1903) shows the Kirk Bridge Dike by Darnall Road and Worksop Road. The Darnall Road section is still visible today from the canal aqueduct. This must flow into the Don, but is not shown on the 'Template:River Don South Yorkshire map'. It is now culverted when it reaches the end of Darnall Road. Does anyone know where it joins the Don?
Waugh Bacon (talk) 01:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The 1853 1:1056 map shows if passing under the site of the Don Valley stadium, crossing Attercliffe Road between Clay St and Fell Rd, crossing Leigh St near its junction with Liverpool St, and then joining the Don. There is a small finger adjoining the river on the modern 1:2500 map close to that location (53.400692, -1.427671), and another a little further upstream at (53.400045, -1.429650). I have no idea whether either of these are the outlet. Most of it was already culverted by 1893. Bob1960evens (talk) 20:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Kirk Bridge Dike

message: The section on flooding states, '...two people died after being swept away by the water.' I am not sure if this is correct. A man died after being caught in the Don's floodwater. I think the other death was caused on the same day, but not in the Don's floodwater. The death occured in the River Sheath in Millhouses Park.
109.155.66.23 (talk) 13:16, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Flooding (2007) 

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message: I've adjusted the conversion template as it was reading 70 miles as 110km which cannot be correct. Given that it's not immediately apparent from which reference document (if any) the length was obtained, I've guessed at the 70 miles being the correct figure and then converted that figure to km which comes out at 113 (in fact 70mi = 112.65km). Though if it was the 110km figure which is correct then the mileage conversion should be given as 68 miles. I have made my own painstaking measurement of the Don from the highest point of Great Grains (not the only contender for the source of the river, I'd note) down to its confluence with the Ouse and it comes out at 111.8km / 69.5mi - though this is of course original research on my part so cannot be included in the article but it does at least give an idea of what a true figure should look like if and when an editor finds a suitable reference out there! Note that there are (subjective?) choices to be made as to which of two or more alternative channels might be measured at certain points on its course, and these choices, generally small in themselves, will be reflected in any total figure provided.cheers Geopersona (talk) 05:40, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've replaced the unreferenced figure with one referenced in the book 'Headwaters' (though there as 69 miles /112km). Geopersona (talk) 09:13, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length