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 1635 to link the new channel to Goole.
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