It contains nine locks (seven canal, one river and one sea lock) and channel widening to allow navigation by 10ft 6in beam boats. All boats are helped through the Link so you'll need to book in advance to travel along this very popular waterway. Opening times, charges and guides.

The link is a navigation, as flows on the Savick Brook can be considerable, and there are large weirs and bywashes at each of the locks, to channel water around them. The lower end of the link is tidal, with boats passing over a rotating gate and through a sea lock to gain access.

Savick Brook is a watercourse in Lancashire, England, which runs from the outskirts of Longridge westward north of Preston to the River Ribble. The brook is a tributary of the lower Ribble, with its source on the outskirts of Longridge (around 53.826934°N 2.610376°W), approximately 8 mi (13 km) to the northeast of Preston.

It requires a passage down the Tidal River Douglas and up the Tidal River Ribble before entering Savick Brook and then through the new sea lock and flight of locks comprising the Ribble Link which joins the Lancaster Canal to the main canal system.

Savick Brook The Savick Brook is a tidal creek that was widened during the construction of the link. At the junction with The Ribble there is a tidal rotating sealock (no.9) boats must reach this point in about 2.5/3 hours after leaving Tarleton otherwise there will not be sufficient water for them to progress.

Ribble - Savick Brook Junction is a major waterways place at the junction of the River Ribble (Ribble Link) with the River Ribble (Main River). Ribble Link Lock No 9 (Sea lock with rotating gates) is on the River Ribble (Ribble Link), 4 furlongs to the northwest.

Opened in 2002, the Ribble Link is Britain’s first entirely new waterway for almost a century, and the only one so far to be created entirely for pleasure boat traffic. It is based on the Savick Brook which was widened, deepened, straightened and provided with new locks to enable boats to use it.

2016年5月5日 · Five locks follow as you cruise up the Savick Brook which has been converted into a river navigation. A CRT volunteer, Ian, helped us up the locks which we shared with Amelia. After five singleton locks, each deeper than the last, you come finally to the staircase of three very deep locks that lead you up to the Lancaster Canal which is about ...

2008年9月4日 · The lowest lock on the Ribble Link, opened in 2002 and using the Savick Brook to connect the Lancaster Canal with the River Ribble, is a navigation weir, seen here being examined by a party of industrial archaeologists.

Rennie now proposed the canal would consist of three long, lock free, sections linked by two flights of locks capable of taking broad beam craft up to seventy two feet in length. The southern section was to start at the coal fields around Westhoughton and run, on one level for fifteen and a half miles, northwestwards past Wigan then north ...