Shifford Lock
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Shifford Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England. It is in the centre of a triangle formed by the small villages of Shifford, Duxford and Chimney in Oxfordshire. It is at the start of a navigation cut built with the lock by the Thames Conservancy in 1898. This was the only new lock built on the non-tidal Thames in the era of falling revenue after the Thames Conservancy took over responsibilities of the Thames Navigation Commission. It replaced a flash lock in a weir about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) downstream.
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Waterway | River Thames |
County | Oxfordshire |
Maintained by | Environment Agency |
Operation | Manual |
First built | 1898 |
Length | 34.64 m (113 ft 8 in) [1] |
Width | 4.59 m (15 ft 1 in)[1] |
Fall | 2.23 m (7 ft 4 in)[1] |
Above sea level | 210' |
Distance to Teddington Lock | 110 miles |
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There is a small weir beside the lock and a larger weir on the old course of the river upstream at the top of the lock cut.