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Mapledurham Lock. The English River Thames is navigable from Cricklade (for very small, shallow boats) or Lechlade (for larger boats) to the sea, and this part of the river falls 71 meters (234 feet). There are 45 locks on the river, each with one or more adjacent weirs.
There is a full list of locks and weirs on the River Thames. Pages in category "Locks on the River Thames" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
The Jubilee River at Slough Weir St John's Lock, near Lechlade The River Thames in Oxford. Brooks, canals and rivers, within an area of 3,842 sq mi (9,951 km 2), [27] combine to form 38 main tributaries feeding the Thames between its source and Teddington Lock.
The lock has the deepest fall of all locks on the Thames at 8 ft 9in (2.69m) and is connected to a large island which is one of three at this point. The lock lies at the end of Church Lane in Sandford on Thames. Upstream from the lock, the main weir connects the second island to the opposite bank on the Kennington, Oxfordshire side. This is the ...
The lock was built of stone in 1790 by the Thames Navigation Commission. The main weir is downstream, just below St John's Bridge, where the River Cole and the River Leach join the Thames on opposite banks. A statue of Old Father Thames by Raffaelle Monti is outside the lock house. The statue was commissioned in 1854 for The Crystal Palace's ...
Marsh Lock is a lock and weir situated on the River Thames in England, about 1 mile upstream of Henley Bridge in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The lock is close to the Berkshire bank, but accessed from the Oxfordshire side via two long walkways, the downstream one being near Mill Meadows. The first pound lock was built by the Thames Navigation ...
Shepperton Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in England by the left bank at Shepperton, Surrey. [ n 1 ] It is across the river from Weybridge which is nearby linked by a passenger ferry . In 1813, the City of London Corporation built the pound lock and the short cuts (cuttings) – the nearer expanded an existing meander cutoff , beyond which ...
Locks and bridges that have prominence in regulating the river; Other structures to identify prominent towns that have not been identified. Non-tidal rivers that have an average discharge of more than 1 m 3 /s; Canals; The conversion 1 sea mile = 6080 ft was obtained by calculation from the Port of London handbook (see below).