Enfield Lock (lock)

Enfield Lock
The lock, cottages and toll office
Waterway	River Lee Navigation
County	London Borough of Enfield Greater London
Maintained by	British Waterways
Operation	Manual
First built	1725
Length	84 feet (25.6 m)
Width	16 feet (4.9 m)
Fall	9 feet 7 inches (2.9 m)
Distance to Bow Creek	11.5 miles (18.5 km)
Distance to Hertford Castle Weir	14.8 miles (23.8 km)
Coordinates	51°40′02″N 0°01′06″W / 51.667319°N 0.018207°W / 51.667319; -0.018207Coordinates: 51°40′02″N 0°01′06″W / 51.667319°N 0.018207°W / 51.667319; -0.018207

Enfield Lock (No 13) is a lock on the River Lee Navigation, in the London Borough of Enfield. It gives its name to the surrounding area of Enfield Lock. The lock is situated close to the former Royal Small Arms Factory now known as Enfield Island Village. It is the first of the smaller locks upstream to Hertford which were built to allow barges up to a maximum 100 tons.

Etymology

Enfield Lock is recorded thus in 1710, earlier as Norhtlok 1355, The Locke 1657, 'the (northern) lock or river barrier (near Enfield)', from Middle English lok.^[1]

History

British Waterways offices

Narrowboats passing through the lock

Above the lock. The far bank shows the River Lea which connected to the Royal Small Arms Factory

A lock on this site has been extant since 1725. The present day structure was re-built in 1922.^[2] At the lock are red brick cottages and a Lee Conservancy Board toll office of 1889.^[3] Below the lock, a water maintenance depot, with clock turret on the cruciform planned office building of 1907.^[3]

Public access

The lock is located adjacent to Ordnance Road.

Enfield Lock railway station is close by.

The area is served by the 491 ^[4] and 121 London bus routes.^[5]

References

↑ Mills. A. D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p76 ISBN 0-19-860957-4 Retrieved 21 October 2008
↑ Enfield Lock - a history Retrieved 26 August 2010
1 2 Cherry,B & Pevsner, N,The Buildings of England London4: North p440 ISBN 0-14-071049-3 Retrieved 1 May 2008
↑ 491 bus timetable Retrieved 3 May 2008
↑ 121 bus timetable Retrieved 2 May 2008

External links

Next lock upstream	River Lee Navigation	Next lock downstream
Rammey Marsh Lock 0.8 mile	Enfield Lock (lock) Grid reference: TQ3703798415	Ponder's End Lock 2.0 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)	Old Ford Lower Lock Old Ford Middle Lock Old Ford Upper Lock 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 (defunct) 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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