This is a selective list of canal
locks
Lock(s) may refer to:
Common meanings
*Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance
*Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal
Arts and entertainment
* ''Lock ...
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
*
Canals of the United Kingdom
The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom. They have a varied history, from use for irrigation and transport, through becoming the focus of the Industrial Revolution, to today's ...
*
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 loc ...
,
Commercial Road Lock
Commercial Road Lock is a lock on the Regent's Canal in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It marks the point at which the canal enters Limehouse Basin, and is the penultimate lock before the canal reaches the Thames.
The nearest Docklands ...
,
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 rive ...
*
Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. The name may refer to either the route of the original Kennet and Avon Canal Company, which linked the River Kennet at Newbury to the River Avon at Bath, or to the entire navigation bet ...
*
Boat lift
A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock.
It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like ...
,
Caisson,
Caisson lock
The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal water levels. It was invented in the late 18th century as a solution to the problem posed ...
,
Canal inclined plane
An inclined plane is a type of cable railway used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels. Boats may be conveyed afloat, in caissons, or may be carried in cradles or slings.
History
Inclined planes have evolved over the ...
,
Canal pound
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 ...
,
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.
Developm ...
,
Lock staircase,
Pound lock
*
List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom
This list of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom covers aqueducts that have articles in Wikipedia. The actual number of canal aqueducts is much greater.
See also
* :Aqueducts in the United Kingdom
*Navigable aqueduct
* Canals of the Unit ...
*
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 jun ...
*
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 ...
*
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, ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canal locks in the United Kingdom
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 f ...
Canals in the United Kingdom
List
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 f ...