Northmoor Lock

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Northmoor Lock
Waterway	River Thames
County	Oxfordshire
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Manual
First built	1896
Length	113’ 6” (34.59m)
Width	15’ 1” (4.59m)
Fall	4’ 1” (1.24m)
Above Sea Level	203'
Distance to Teddington Lock	105

Northmoor Lock
legend River Thames weir navigable to Duxford Ford weir Shifford Lock River Windrush A415 New Bridge Hart's Footbridge footbridge Northmoor Lock & weir River Thames

Northmoor Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, on the northern bank near Northmoor, Oxfordshire.

The lock was built in 1896 by the Thames Conservancy to replace a flash lock at Hart's Weir about a mile upstream.

The weir is just the other side of the lock island and is one of the few remaining manually operated weirs.

Contents 1 Access to the lock 2 Reach above the lock 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Access to the lock

The lock is remote from the Northmoor and some distance walk across county. The weir can be reached from Appleton, Oxfordshire, which is an equal distance away on the opposite bank.

[edit] Reach above the lock

Along the reach is the Hart's Weir Footbridge on the site of the old weir. Further along, the river is crossed by the 13th century Newbridge at the confluence of the River Windrush.

The Thames Path follows the northern bank to Newbridge, and then crosses over and continues on the south bank until the new cut. There it crosses again, over the old course of the river, to Shifford Lock which is on the cut.

[edit] See also

• Locks on the River Thames
• Lambourn Downs

[edit] External links

• Northmoor Lock at riverthames.co.uk
• Picture of Northmoor Lock at geograph.org.uk

Next lock upstream	River Thames	Next lock downstream
Shifford Lock 4.74 miles	Northmoor Lock Grid reference: SP431021	Pinkhill Lock 3.86 miles