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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River Great Ouse (section Port of King's Lynn)
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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Islands in the River Thames (section Lock islands)
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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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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