Shifford Lock

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Shifford Lock
Waterway	River Thames
County	Oxfordshire
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Manual
First built	1898
Length	113’ 8” (34.64m)
Width	15’ 1” (4.59m)
Fall	7’ 4” (2.23m)
Above Sea Level	210'
Distance to Teddington Lock	110 miles

Shifford Lock
legend River Thames Rushey Lock & weir Tadpole Bridge Tenfoot Bridge weir navigable to Duxford Ford footbridge weir Shifford Lock River Thames

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. It replaced a flash lock in a weir about 3/4 mile downstream.

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.

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

[edit] Access to the lock

The lock can be reached on foot from Chimney about a mile away.

[edit] Reach above the lock

Halfway along the cut, which is about a mile long, is the Shifford Cut Footbridge The cut rejoins the old course of the river. Along the reach there is another wooden footbridge, Tenfoot Bridge and further on is Tadpole Bridge.

The Thames Path starts on the south bank of the cut, crosses over on Shiffort Cut Footbridge and then continues on the north bank beyond the cut to Rushey Lock.

[edit] See also

• Shifford
• Brighthampton
• Locks on the River Thames

[edit] See also

• Shifford Lock Gazetteer entry at mihailis.net
• Picture of Shifford Lock at geograph.org.uk

Next lock upstream	River Thames	Next lock downstream
Rushey Lock 3.30 miles	Shifford Lock Grid reference: SP370010	Northmoor Lock 4.74 miles