Goring lock
The Goring Lock is a lock in the River Thames at Goring Gap in the Chiltern Hills . It is located at Goring-On-Thames in Oxfordshire . Across the river is Streatley , Berkshire . The lock is just upriver from Goring and Streatley Bridge and was built in 1787 by the Thames Navigation Commission .
The weir runs from the lock to an island at Goring and Streatley Bridge and from there there is another weir to the shore at Streatley.
history
There was a weir here that originally belonged to Goring Priory and then went to a miller who operated a water lock. A newspaper report from 1674 describes how 60 people drowned when a ferryman drove too close to the weir. The lock was built from oak in August 1787 . Until 1869 the lock was operated by a lock keeper together with the Cleeve Lock . Then there were plans to build a lock keeper's house, the construction of which was delayed until 1879. The lock itself was renewed in 1886. During work in 1921, additional gates were installed in the lock chamber, so that two chambers were created, but these gates were removed again in 2003.
The river above the lock
The stretch of river above the lock is only a kilometer long and the shortest between two locks in the Thames. The Thames Path crosses the river at Goring Bridge to Streatley and runs on the western side of the river to Cleeve Lock.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fred S. Thacker: The Thames Highway. Volume II: Locks and Weirs. 1920 - 1968 reissued, David & Charles, Newton Abbot.
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '24.6 " N , 1 ° 8' 28.4" W.