The canal also carried limestone from Craven for purifying the products of the world-famous iron works at Bowling and Low Moor, as well as building stone. This late medieval stone bridge - originally 'gallows bridge' - across the River Avill once carried packhorses bringing fleeces from Exmoor to the Somerset market town of Dunster.

Gallows Bridge Moorings are located at Shipley, just a days sailing from Skipton and Bradley, between Shipley Junction Bridge No. This paved trail provides cyclists and pedestrians with off-road access to Metrorail stations, parks, other trails, and communities stretching from Dunn Loring to Centreville. Access to Saltaire Village is just along the canal and Bingley 5 Rise Locks are located a short distance away as are many other Yorkshire attractions.Andy Brown, Green Party councillor for Aire Valley, said the new bridge would bring improvements to Skipton but expressed frustration that disabled people will not be able to use it.

This was because North Yorkshire Council made a last-minute change to a condition so construction could take place overnight, following a request from rail operator Northern on the morning of the meeting. In modern usage the term has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging. Many old prints of European cities show such a permanent gallows erected on a prominent hill outside the walls, or more commonly near the castle or other seat of justice.

The northbound span was opened in October 2021 and carried both northbound and southbound traffic while the old bridge was demolished and the southbound portion of the new bridge was constructed. The canal had a chequered early history, from being central to the development of the town in the late-18 th Century, to being blamed for a cholera epidemic in the 1850s. In one case a condemned strangled to death in agony for forty minutes until he finally died from asphyxiation. Would you like to make a donation to the Society and/or to Kennet by Debit/Credit Card or PayPal account.

However, this was not the end of the story, with the canal re-opening on 16 April 1873, and continuing to provide transport facilities for the town until 1922. The Tyburn gallows, commonly known as Tyburn Tree, was triangular in plan, with three uprights and three crossbeams, allowing up to 24 people to be executed simultaneously when all three sides were used. At Gallows Bridge Farm we have attempted experimental introductions of the rare Tassel Stonewort Tolypella intricata and Lesser Water-plantain Baldellia ranunculoides – both of these rare species occur elsewhere in the Upper Ray catchment. The day was exceptional and Aaran the boat captain shared lots of local and boating knowledge with us.Councillors agreed that the public must be consulted on the new working hours first before a decision can be made. It looks like the man is bending over a model village until you see the brick he is laying at a dizzying height above the ground.