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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.
Additionally, Blake's Lock is located on a reach of the River Kennet that is administered by the Environment Agency as part of the River Thames, and is often counted as a Thames Lock. It is the only manual Thames lock below Oxford. The tide flows as far as Teddington Lock: the weir at Richmond Lock is only used at low tide, to maintain the ...
London Stone, Yantlet Creek. The transition between the Thames Estuary and the North Sea has been located at various notional boundaries, including: [1] The Yantlet Line between the Crow Stone (London Stone) on the northern foreshore at Chalkwell, Westcliff-on-Sea and another London Stone off the Isle of Grain, to the south.
South Thames Estuary and Marshes is a 5,289-hectare (13,070-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Gravesend and the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Part of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [ 3 ] and part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve. [ 4 ]
The sea level in the Thames estuary is rising and the rate of rise is increasing. [22] [23] Sediment cores up to 10 m deep collected by the British Geological Survey from the banks of the tidal River Thames contain geochemical information and fossils which provide a 10,000-year record of sea-level change. [24]
Rushey Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England. It is on the northern bank of the river in Oxfordshire, at a considerable distance from any village, the nearest being Buckland Marsh, a hamlet on the road to Buckland to the south of the river. The lock was built in stone in 1790 by the Thames Navigation Commission. The weir is adjacent to ...
It is on the reach above Marsh Lock. [ 2 ] The 2.378-acre (0.962 ha) low-lying narrow island, [ 3 ] wooded and about 200m long, has a tennis court and internally a large fish pond which reduces its area but was excavated between 1907 and 2000 to help build up its level, being next to a broad area equipped with designated flood-meadows known as ...
Hennerton Backwater is a narrow backwater of the River Thames on the reach above Marsh Lock near the villages of Shiplake, Oxfordshire and Wargrave, Berkshire. [1] Hennerton Backwater leaves the River Thames at the Unnamed Eyot, passing through Willow Marina, and rejoins just below Ferry Eyot. It is navigable by small boats from the downstream ...