Stonebridge Lock

Stonebridge Lock
Stonebridge Lock
Waterway	River Lea Navigation
County	London Borough of Haringey Greater London
Maintained by	British Waterways
Operation	Mechanical/Manual
Length	95 feet (29 m)
Width	19 feet 6 inches (5.9 m)
Fall	6 feet 6 inches (2 m)
Distance to Bow Creek	8.3 miles (13.4 km)
Distance to Hertford Castle Weir	19.7 miles (31.7 km)
Coordinates	51°35′50″N 0°03′02″W / 51.597106°N 0.050517°W / 51.597106; -0.050517Coordinates: 51°35′50″N 0°03′02″W / 51.597106°N 0.050517°W / 51.597106; -0.050517

Stonebridge Lock (No16) is a paired lock on the River Lee Navigation in the London Borough of Haringey, England and is located near Tottenham, London. Like other locks as far as Ponder's End Lock it is large enough to take barges of up to 130 tons. The primary lock has been upgraded to mechanical operation, but the secondary lock is operated manually.

Access to the lock

The lock is situated on the navigation between the Lockwood Reservoir on the Walthamstow side and Tottenham Marshes on the Tottenham side. The lock can be reached on foot only from Marsh Lane behind Northumberland Park railway station.

Pedestrian and cycle access via the towpath which forms part of the Lea Valley Walk

Recreation

Angling is allowed on the River Lee Navigation upstream and downstream of the lock. Information from the River Lea Anglers Club.^[1]

References

↑ River Lea Anglers Club Retrieved 2 December 2014

External links

Next lock upstream	River Lea Navigation	Next lock downstream
Pickett's Lock 2.2 miles	Stonebridge Lock Grid reference: TQ3501290548	Tottenham Lock 0.9 miles

Locks and Weirs on the River Lea, England
Counties	Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Essex Greater London
Locks	Hertford Lock Ware Lock Hardmead Lock Stanstead Lock Feildes Weir Lock Dobbs Weir Lock Carthagena Lock Aqueduct Lock Cheshunt Lock Waltham Common Lock Waltham Town Lock Rammey Marsh Lock Enfield Lock Ponder's End Lock Pickett's Lock Stonebridge Lock Tottenham Lock Pond Lane Flood Gates Old Ford Lock Bow Locks
Weirs	Horns Mill Weir Hertford Castle Weir Hartham Weir Ware Weir Feildes Weir Dobbs Weir Carthagena Weir Kings Weir Newmans Weir Middlesex Filter Beds Weir
Hertford Union Canal (branch from Hackney Cut)	Hertford Union Bottom Lock No. 3 Hertford Union Middle Lock No. 2 Hertford Union Top Lock No. 1 Regent's Canal
Limehouse Cut (branch, at Bow Locks)	Bromley Stop Lock Britannia Stop Lock Limehouse Basin
Bow Back Rivers (branches of the Old River Lea)	Three Mills Lock City Mill Lock Carpenter's Road Lock (Under restoration, est. completion March 2017) Marshgate Lane Lock (defunct) Three Mills Wall River Weir (These rivers form the waterways within the 2012 Olympic Park - they flow into Bow Creek)

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