Hillmorton Middle Locks in Warwickshire
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Hillmorton Middle Locks in Warwickshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 2 Sep 2008
There are three sets of parallel twinned locks in the Hillmorton flight on the Oxford Canal, raising or lowering the water level by 18ft 7in (about five and a half metres). The Locks are Grade II listed strucures. I'm not quite sure of the winding gear function between each pair of locks; maybe it's just decorative. Please tell me if I'm wrong. This is the busiest flight of locks on the national canal network. They were originally built as single locks during 1769-74, but additional twin locks were added in 1840, in order to relieve congestion.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.364211
Longitude
-1.211334