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Clifton LockShort Term Mooring, Ice Cream, Lock Flight, in or near to Abingdon
Off High Street, Abingdon OX14 3EH
Clifton Lock can be found on the River Thames in Oxfordshire and quite near to Abingdon.
What can be found at: Clifton Lock
Clifton Lock is located south of the village of Clifton Hampden and north of Long Wittenham.
It is at the start of the Clifton Cut, which bypasses the river just north of Long Wittenham.
Construction was completed in 1822 by the Thames Navigation Commissioners.
The main weir, which was built thirteen years later than the lock, runs across the older navigation of the river. A smaller weir runs just above the lock.
Clifton is one of the few lock sites on the non-tidal river Thames where there was not a weir and flash lock already in existance, although there was an important ferry.
Problems to navigation had long been recognised and the first suggestions for creating a lock "near Clifton Ferry" were made in 1793, being raised again in 1811.
The construction of the lock cut was delayed because the owner of the land was "alledgedly a lunatic", and was eventually completed in 1822 together along with the lock.
No weir was built at the time, giving rise to complaints.
In 1826, the Lord Mayor of London visited Oxford by boat, and the City Barge plus attendant boats were "detained at Clifton a considerable length of time."
The weir was eventually erected on the old navigation in 1835 asa result the towpath around the old navigation channel fell into disuse.
It was enlarged by 1877 and a tumbling bay was created close to the lock. The lock cut bridges were all rebuilt in 1884.
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