Day's Lock
The Day's Lock is a lock on the River Thames near Dorchester-on-Thames and Little Wittenham , Oxfordshire , England .
The lock was built in 1789 by the Thames Navigation Commission . The cost of construction was £ 1,078 . It is opposite Little Wittenham and can be seen from Round Hill of the Wittenham Clumps . The lock is accessible on foot from Little Wittenham or Dorchester.
The weir is currently running from the lock island across the river. The Day's Lock is the main measuring station for the water flow in the Thames.
history
The name Day's Lock goes back to the Day family , a Yeoman family that has lived there since the 17th century . In the 16th century there was a floodgate at this point . The new lock was planned in August 1788. It was decided to build them on the Oxfordshire side of the river if the weir owner removed his eel traps. In 1865 a complaint was made about the dangerous condition of the lock, but it was not repaired until 1871. In 1882 a bell was erected to notify the lock keeper who did not have a lock keeper's house at the lock. The keeper's house was built in 1928 on Lock House Island on the upstream Little Wittenham Bridge .
The river above the lock
The river makes a long curve towards Clifton Hampden. Here is the Clifton Hampden Bridge and the Barley Mow Pub mentioned in Three Men in One Boat . The Clifton Cut separates from the old shipping lane and leads to the Clifton Lock .
There are markings upstream of the lock that allow motor boats to control their speed.
The Thames Path runs on the west or south side of the river to Clifton Hampden Bridge , where it changes to the north side and there runs to Clifton Lock.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 7, Dorchester and Thame Hundreds. Parishes: Dorchester on: British History online
- ^ Fred S. Thacker: The Thames Highway. Volume II: Locks and Weirs. 1920 - 1968 reissued, David & Charles, Newton Abbot.
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 30.9 " N , 1 ° 10 ′ 25.5" W.