Template:Did you know nominations/Combe Hay Locks
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:48, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
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Combe Hay Locks
The derelict Combe Hay Locks
- ... that between 1797 and 1805, three different methods of climbing a 130-foot (40 m) valley were used on the Somerset Coal Canal—first a caisson lock, then an inclined plane, and finally a flight of 22 locks (remains pictured)? "Nov. 1797 Caisson worked for the first time"; "the total drop of the Combe Hay flight was 134 ft."; Nov. 1801 Inclined Plane opened; 1805 Inclined Plane superseded by lock flight
- ALT1:... that in 1801 Jane Austen planned to visit "the cassoon" (engraving pictured) at Combe Hay? "[my uncle] and I are soon to take the long-planned walk to the Cassoon"
- Nominator's comments:
- I have rounded down the height (134→130 ft); is this a problem for DYK? Specific measurements in article. Could put {{circa}} in the hook but might be a bit clunky.
- If ALT1 is preferred (with image), the image should be thissaone.
- Article history may seem to show that the article was created on 7 January; this was the creation of my draft article (in userspace)—the mainspace article was created on 25 February.
- MIDI (talk) 14:13, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 14:03, 26 February 2020 (UTC).
