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    King's Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England. It is in open country to the north of Oxford, Oxfordshire, on the southern bank of the river. The...
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    which has come from above King's Lock by Wolvercote. Prior to the construction of the lock, Godstow Bridge served as a form of lock, which remained in service...
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    Sean Lock (22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021) was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian and in 2000 he won the...
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    Canals of the United Kingdom History of the British canal system "King's Norton Stop Lock". Waterscape.com. Retrieved 3 October 2007. "Birmingham's Scheduled...
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  • Lock (born 4 March 1993) is a Zimbabwean tennis player. He is a member of the Zimbabwe Davis Cup team, where he has a win–loss record of 30–12. Lock has...
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    Agency. The locks at the upper end of the river, from St John's Lock to King's Lock, are manually operated. All other locks on the Thames are hydraulically...
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    still usable. Of particular note was lock 53 where, because of subsidence from brine pumping, the 'spare' lock was replaced by a steel contrivance with...
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    Lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device without the original key. Although lock-picking can...
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    lock, also known as the Yale lock after the inventor of the modern version, is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent the lock...
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    years of experience. The attorney general, solicitor-general and king's serjeants were King's Counsel in Ordinary in the Kingdom of England. The first Queen's...
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    approximately one mile down river from Cassington on the reach above King's Lock, 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Oxford. Between Cassington and Eynsham...
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    the double Gauging Lock (lock 100) at Brentford. Just upstream of the Gauging Lock was a large canal basin, now known as Brentford Lock, from which the canal...
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  • own articles are included; the main weirstream/river stream of each Thames lock is omitted and the smallest such associated instances but the Sheepwash Channel...
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    Thames. It crosses the Thames just upstream of Godstow Lock near Wolvercote on the reach to King's Lock. The bridge was built in 1961. The bridge's formal...
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    Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England near the village of Iffley, Oxfordshire. It is on the southern outskirts of Oxford. The original lock was...
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    Godstow near Oxford. The bridge is just upstream of Godstow Lock on the reach to King's Lock and carries a minor road between Wolvercote and Wytham. The...
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    Dukes Cut leads to King's Lock; a few hundred yards (metres) from the heart of the city centre by Oxford railway station. below Isis Lock (known to boatmen...
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    Osney Lock is a lock on the River Thames in Oxford, England, where the village or island of Osney is next to the river. The first lock was built of stone...
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    employing men to defend them. Hayne subsequently scuppered a barge in King's Lock, and for the next eight years goods had to be transhipped around it....
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    tumbler lock is a type of lock that uses a set of flat wafers to prevent the lock from opening unless the correct key is inserted. This type of lock is similar...
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    Eynsham Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England. It is on the southern bank near Swinford Oxfordshire. The large village of Eynsham is a little distance...
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    the river at a sluice above King's Lynn, and was made navigable in 2001, when the Environment Agency constructed a lock at Denver to provide access....
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    River Cam (redirect from Bottisham Lock)
    Bite Lock.map 3 The stretch north (downstream) of Jesus Lock is sometimes called the lower river. The stretch between Jesus Lock and Baits Bite Lock is...
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  • Gen:Lock (stylized as gen:LOCK) is an American animated science fiction television series created by Gray Haddock and produced by Rooster Teeth. It is...
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  • canal to contain the lock and turning the land between that and the river into an island. In many cases the lock island contains the lock keeper's house and...
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    The millstream provided a connection to the Thames above King's Weir, bypassing the flash lock. The cut opened in 1789; the exact date is unknown but an...
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  • Thumbnail for Lock of hair
    A lock of hair is a piece or pieces of human hair that are usually bunched or tied together in some way. A lock of hair can be on a person's head, or...
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    Matthew Vaughn, is an English filmmaker. He has produced films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and directed Layer...
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    manually operated lock. The twin locks together are "Hampstead Road Lock 1"; each bears a sign so marked. Hawley Lock and Kentish Town Lock are a short distance...
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  • Jim Parsons (rugby union) (category People educated at The King's School, Canterbury)
    for Oxford and Northampton. Parsons was capped four times by England as a lock in the 1968 Five Nations Championship, introduced as one of eight debutants...
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