Shifford Lock

Shifford Lock
Waterway	River Thames
County	Oxfordshire
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Manual
First built	1898
Length	34.64 m (113 ft 8 in) [1]
Width	4.59 m (15 ft 1 in)[1]
Fall	2.23 m (7 ft 4 in)[1]
Above sea level	210'
Distance to Teddington Lock	110 miles

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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. This was the only new lock built on the non-tidal Thames in the era of falling revenue after the Thames Conservancy took over responsibilities of the Thames Navigation Commission. It replaced a flash lock in a weir about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) 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.