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Many locks also have moorings that can be used overnight, and some include electric charging points for electric powered boats. All the locks have obvious access from the Thames Path, except for Whitchurch Lock which is within an island and only accessible by boat; Cookham Lock requires a 1km diversion from the Thames Path; and Marlow Lock ...
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).
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 weir runs straight across the river from the other side of the lock island. Day's Lock is the main gauging station for the measurement of the water flow in the River Thames. The Thames Path crosses the river here. The World Poohsticks Championships, on behalf of the RNLI, have taken place annually here since 1983.
From Reading the race follows the non-tidal River Thames downstream for 55 miles (89 km) through Henley-on-Thames, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines and Kingston before reaching the tidal River Thames at Teddington Lock. The tidal river is followed for the final 18 miles (29 km) through the western suburbs of London to Westminster. The 2008 ...
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]
The distance between Benson Lock and Cleeve Lock downstream is 6.5 miles (10.4 km) - the longest distance between locks on the River Thames. [2] The weir runs from the lock island level with the lock across to the Benson side. There is a footbridge over the weir which replaced the ferry which operated here previously. The Thames Path crosses ...
The greater lock is against the general south (right, towpath or Surrey) bank of the river which is for 500 m north-east here [n 2]; a middle lock being that most regularly used spans a long thin island which has lawns, places for boat owners to sit and a lock keeper's cabin and short thin island which is a thin wedge of concrete and a broad canoe/kayak stepped portage facility.