The Thames Navigation Commission managed the River Thames in southern England from 1751 to 1866. In particular, they were responsible for installing or...
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when the Thames Conservancy was formed to manage the river from Staines downstream. In 1866 the functions of the Thames Navigation Commission were transferred...
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Oxford-Burcot Commission was the first commission concerned with the management of the River Thames, appointed by an act of Parliament, the Thames Commission of...
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Shiplake Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
Loddon joins the Thames and Shiplake Railway Bridge crosses the river. The first pound lock was built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1773. The weir...
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Marsh Lock (category Henley-on-Thames)
being near Mill Meadows. The first pound lock was built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1773. The weir consists of a series of iron watergates running...
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criteria (e.g. tidal, geographical, navigational or in terms of salinity). For this reason the limits of the Thames Estuary have been defined differently...
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Sonning Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
the River Thames at the village of Sonning near Reading, Berkshire, England. The first lock was built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1773 and...
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Bray Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
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...
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Canal and the Thames and Severn Canal connected to the non-tidal Thames. It was not until a little after the Thames Navigation Commission were enabled...
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Marlow Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
of Marlow Bridge. The first pound lock was built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1773. The weir stretches a long way upstream above the lock....
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St John's Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
the Thames Navigation Commission. The main weir is downstream, just below St John's Bridge, where the River Cole and the River Leach join the Thames on...
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Hertford Castle Weir to the River Thames at Bow Creek; its first lock is Hertford Lock and its last Bow Locks. The Lee Navigation is named by Acts of Parliament...
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Iffley Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
The original lock was built by the Oxford-Burcot Commission in 1631 and the Thames Navigation Commission replaced this in 1793. The lock has a set of rollers...
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London Stones. In 1771 the Thames Navigation Commission was established from a body created twenty years earlier to handle navigation on the river. Although...
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Buscot Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
on the River Thames in England, near the village of Buscot, Oxfordshire. The lock was built of stone by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1790 and is...
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Boulter's Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
dating from the late 16th century and that of 1772 built by the Thames Navigation Commission. The lock is on the western side of the north–south flowing reach...
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Abingdon Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
opposite bank of the river. It was originally built in 1790 by the Thames Navigation Commission. The weir runs across from the Abingdon side to the lock island...
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Hambleden Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
Berkshire bank between Aston and Remenham. Built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1773, the lock is named after the village of Hambleden, a mile...
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Osney Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
Harris for the Thames Navigation Commission in 1790. Across the weir pool is a large Environment Agency complex which monitors the River Thames, while a small...
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Nuneham Viaduct (category Bridges across the River Thames)
required, and its design and alterations had to be approved by the Thames Navigation Commission. These works were supervised by the civil engineer George Treacher...
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Marlow Bridge (category Bridges across the River Thames)
was built by public subscription with a contribution from the Thames Navigation Commission to increase the headroom underneath. The current suspension bridge...
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temperate delivery. He served ten years as treasurer of the Thames Navigation Commission. Young died at Formosa Place, Berkshire, on 28 June 1810 and...
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Shifford Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
era of falling revenue after the Thames Conservancy took over responsibilities of the Thames Navigation Commission. It replaced a flash lock in a weir...
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Mayor of London and the City of London Corporation, one for the Thames Navigation Commission and eight representing the City livery companies. Accompanying...
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Rushey Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
south of the river. The lock was built in stone in 1790 by the Thames Navigation Commission. The weir is adjacent to the lock on the other side of the lock...
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Shiplake (redirect from Shiplake-on-Thames)
were he that knit the knot. In 1773 the Thames Navigation Commission built Shiplake Lock on the River Thames about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) downriver from the...
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flooding, and provide for navigation above the tideway. From ancient times there were many obstructions across the Thames, for fish-pounds and millers'...
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Level Navigations) National Trust (River Wey and Godalming Navigations) Port of London Authority (Tidal River Thames) Association of Inland Navigation Authorities...
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Culham Lock (category Locks on the River Thames)
village of Sutton Courtenay. The lock was built of stone by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1809. The associated weirs are on the old course of the river...
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working to restore both the canal and the Stroudwater Navigation to navigably re-link the Thames and the Severn. A number of the structures have been restored...
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