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Richmond Lock is managed by the Port of London Authority. Most of the Environment Agency's locks and weirs are staffed by a lock keeper, who often lives in a house adjacent to the lock. The lock keeper's duties involve both operating the lock, and managing the river levels above the lock by adjusting the weir openings.
In 1890, after many years of petitioning, an act of Parliament was enacted to build the half-lock and weir, the Richmond Footbridge Sluices, Lock and Slipway Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxxiv). This is among a small minority of Thames locks not to have been built around an island or islands (aits).
A bridge across the weir on the Culham Cut, west of Culham Lock: Culham Lock Lock, footbridge: 51°39′1″N 1°16′3″W: Other bridges cross the main river channel: Abingdon Bridge Arch bridge, road bridge: 51°40′6″N 1°16′45″W [68] 1416: Abingdon Lock Lock, footbridge: 51°40′14″N 1°16′9″W: Nuneham Viaduct
River traffic around Waterloo Pier in 2008 The Thames Lock on the Grand Union Canal at Brentford in 2005. The River is navigable to large ocean-going ships as far as the Pool of London at London Bridge. The Port of London is the United Kingdom's second largest port by tonnage. [3] Today, little commercial traffic passes above the Thames Barrier.
A Romano-British settlement grew up north of the confluence, partly because the site was naturally protected from attack on the east side by the River Cherwell and on the west by the River Thames. This settlement dominated the pottery trade in what is now central southern England, and pottery was distributed by boats on the Thames and its ...
The Thames Path uses the existing Thames towpath between Inglesham and Putney Bridge wherever possible. The former Thames and Severn Canal entrance is the present-day limit of navigation [13] [14] for powered craft, and is one and a half miles upstream of the highest lock (St John's Lock), near Lechlade. [15]
Residents are weighing in on proposed changes to intersections including Ribaut and Lady’s Island Drive
Between the Town Lock (or Weybridge Lock) and Coxes lock is the Blackboys footbridge by Blackboy Farm and, after a railway bridge, Coxes Mill in three Grade II listed blocks. [22] With its little island and accompanying weir which helps to drain the 5-acre (2-hectare) mill pond, Coxes lock is the deepest unmanned lock on the Navigation with a ...