This is a selective list of canal
locks in the United Kingdom which have unique features or are notable in some other way. This list is not comprehensive.
Gallery
Image:Bingley Five Rise Locks 1.JPG, Bingley Five Rise
Image:Bow Locks low tide.jpg, Bow Locks
Image:Watford Locks.jpg, Watford Locks
Image:Caen.hill.locks.in.devizes.arp.jpg, Caen Hill flight
See also
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Canals of the United Kingdom
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Camden Lock
Camden Lock is a small part of Camden Town, London Borough of Camden, England, which was formerly a wharf with stables on the Regent's Canal. It is immediately to the north of Hampstead Road Locks, a twin manually operated lock. The twin locks ...
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Commercial Road Lock,
Limehouse Basin Lock
Limehouse Basin Lock is a lock forming the exit from Limehouse Basin to the Thames, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is the final lock on the Regent's Canal. The Narrow Street swing bridge sits between the lock and the river. ...
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Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal
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Boat lift,
Caisson,
Caisson lock,
Canal inclined plane,
Canal pound,
Flash lock
A flash lock is a type of lock for river or canal transport.
Early locks were designed with a single gate, known as a flash lock or staunch lock. The earliest European references to what were clearly flash locks were in Roman times.
Developme ...
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Lock staircase
A canal pound (from impound), reach, or level (American usage), is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary in length from the non-existent, where two or more immediately adjacent locks form a lock stair ...
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Pound lock
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water lev ...
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List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom
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List of canal basins in Great Britain
This List of canal basins in the United Kingdom is a list of articles about any canal basin in the United Kingdom.
Birmingham Canal Navigations
* Caggy's Boatyard, Tipton, on the BCN New Main Line
*Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, at the junc ...
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List of canal junctions in Great Britain
This List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of canal junctions in the United Kingdom that have articles in Wikipedia, in alphabetical order.
See also
*Junction (canal)
*Canals of Great Britain
*History of the Br ...
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List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom
This is a list of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom.
Listed by name
Navigatable adits and mine levels
An adit is a horizontal entrance to a mine:
Listed by canal Grand Union Canal
*Blisworth Tunnel, Northamptonshire
*Braunston Tunnel, No ...
References
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Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...
Canals in the United Kingdom
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Canal locks
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water lev ...
Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...