Moorings on the River Ancholme

The River Ancholme is a navigable river in north Lincolnshire. The navigation runs 27 kilometres from Bishopbridge down past Brigg to South Ferriby, where a tidal lock takes boats out onto the Humber estuary, which leads on to the other waterways of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and to the North Sea.

The Environment Agency is the navigation authority. There are two locks. South Ferriby Lock, 68 by 18 feet, is the tidal entrance and has four sets of gates, two for when the Humber is higher than the river and two for when it is lower. Harlam Hill Lock, further up, is 60 by 16 feet and limits boats above it to 40 feet in length. Among the bridges over the river is Horkstow Bridge, one of the earliest suspension bridges still standing.

Moorings on the River Ancholme are at South Ferriby, by the sluice and lock, and at Brigg, with further moorings upriver at Brandy Wharf and Bishopbridge. Two historic Humber sailing vessels kept by the Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society are based at South Ferriby.