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The River Don (also called River Dun in some stretches) is a river in South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It rises in the Pennines , west of Dunford Bridge , and flows for 69 miles (111 km) eastwards, through the Don Valley, via Penistone , Sheffield , Rotherham , Mexborough , Conisbrough , Doncaster and Stainforth .
The River Don Navigation was the result of early efforts to make the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, navigable between Fishlake and Sheffield.The Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden had re-routed the mouth of the river in 1626, to improve drainage, and the new works included provision for navigation, but the scheme did not solve the problem of flooding, and the Dutch River was cut in ...
The River Don is known to have been navigable up to Doncaster as early as 1343, when a commission looked at the problems caused by bridges and weirs. It underwent major changes in the 1620s, when Cornelius Vermuyden closed the channel which crossed Hatfield Chase to reach the River Trent at Adlingfleet, and diverted all of the water northwards to the River Aire.
The station was originally launched on June 20, 1954, as KVDO-TV, broadcasting on channel 22 as the Corpus Christi market's first television station. [2] Owned by Coastal Bend Television, KVDO was a primary affiliate of the DuMont network, [3] but carried secondary affiliations with NBC until KRIS-TV took the air in May 1956, CBS until KZTV signed on in September 1956, [4] and ABC. [5]
The bridge chapel, seen from the west. Rotherham Bridge crosses the River Don in central Rotherham, South Yorkshire. It is known for its bridge chapel, considered the best preserved in England. [1] A document of 1385 refers to Bridgegate in the town, which implies that a previous bridge existed on the same site.
Nueces County has given a preliminary nod on joining the city of Corpus Christi to help financially support certain projects planned for a European-styled mixed-use development.
There were 28 bridges in the contract for the Doncaster bypass, including five railway bridges. [1] [2] The fabrication of the steelwork for the bridge took place at the West Bromwich Works. The steel superstructure for the bridge was launched from one end of the bridge on an embankment. The steel fabrication was sprayed with zinc. [3]
Drawings of the Whitecap and Gypsy bridges rendered by LJA Engineering, the city’s contractor on the rock installation project, show the existing bridge bulkheads are composed of 10-foot ...