Top Lock

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The lock would have been used by keel barges travelling up and down the canal. These boats came to pick up heavy loads of coal from Elsecar, Simon Wood and Hemmingfield colliery to take out to Hull. They also brought goods with them, such as spices to be sold by the spice merchant based at the side of the canal in Hemmingfield.

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