Bray Lock

Bray Lock
Bray Lock, Buckinghamshire
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WaterwayRiver Thames
CountyBuckinghamshire
Maintained byEnvironment Agency
OperationHydraulic
First built1845
Latest built1888
Length40.94 m (134 ft 4 in)[1]
Width5.46 m (17 ft 11 in)[1]
Fall1.46 m (4 ft 9 in)[1]
Above sea level69'
Distance to
Teddington Lock
29 miles
Bray Lock
River Thames
Fleet River
 A3094  road bridge
weir
Hedsor Wharf
weir
bridges
Cookham Lock
Formosa Island
Strand Water
White Brook
Maidenhead Ditch
Mill Race
Kayaking
Ray Mill
Boulter's Lock
Taplow mill
Jubilee River --
-- (to Old Windsor Lock)
Ray Mill Road West
Grass Eyot
Bridge Eyot
Moor Cut
 A4  Bath Road
High St.(Chapel Arches)
York Road
Guards Club Island
Great Western Main Line
Maidenhead Railway Bridge
Forlease Road
York Stream
Weir and boat rollers
(proposed Green Lane lock)
St Michael's Church, Bray
Bray Cut
Headpile Eyot
Bray Lock, island and weir
Bray Mill
The Cut, Berkshire
 M4  Motorway
The Cut
Bray marina
River Thames

Bray Lock is a lock and weir on the River Thames in England near Bray and Dorney Reach, and is just above the M4 Bridge across the Thames. The lock is on the Buckinghamshire side of the river on the opposite bank from Bray itself and Maidenhead which are in Berkshire. Here, the county line stands roughly halfway between the lock and the opposite bank, following the course of the Thames itself. The pound lock was built by the Thames Navigation Commission relatively late, in 1845. The lock keeper's cottage is on an island (Parting Eyot) between the lock and the weir.

The weir is almost level with the lock and runs straight across to the opposite bank from the other side of the lock island.

  1. ^ a b c "Environment Agency Dimensions of locks on the River Thames". web page. Environmental Agency. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2012. Dimensions given in metres