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  2. Locks and weirs on the River Thames - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Benson Lock - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Richmond Lock and Footbridge - Wikipedia

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    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).

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  6. Tideway - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Teddington Lock - Wikipedia

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    In episode 1 of series 5 of the BBC TV police drama New Tricks, the villain is arrested at Teddington Lock. Thames Television had its purpose-built Teddington Studios at Teddington Lock. [21] In a third-season episode of Murder Maps Teddington Lock was the location of the brutal murder of two teenage girls in the summer of 1953. The murderer ...

  8. Caversham Lock - Wikipedia

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    Caversham Lock is a lock and main weir on the River Thames in England at Reading, Berkshire. Both the lock and main weir are connected to De Bohun Island (colloquially known as Lock Island). The Thames Navigation Commissioners built the original lock in 1778. Additional sluices north of View Island and Heron Island form the whole weir complex.

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