Milby Lock toward Milby Cut on Ure Navigation
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Milby Lock toward Milby Cut on Ure Navigation
Image: © Martin Dawes Taken: 8 Sep 2017
This short section of canal off the River Ure allowed boats to bypass the weir at Boroughbridge when it was a working canal.It was built about 1770 as the Ripon Canal which is upstream opened January 1772
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Image Location
Latitude
54.100482
Longitude
-1.387362