Cheshunt Lock

Cheshunt Lock
Cheshunt Lock
	51°42′36″N 0°01′01″W / 51.710046°N 0.016882°W
Waterway	River Lee Navigation
County	Hertfordshire
Maintained by	Canal & River Trust
Operation	Manual
Length	85 feet (25.9 m)
Width	16 feet (4.9 m)
Fall	5 feet 1 inch (1.5 m)
Distance to ; Bow Creek	14.5 miles (23.3 km)
Distance to ; Hertford Castle Weir	11.8 miles (19.0 km)

Cheshunt Lock (No 9) is a lock on the River Lee Navigation at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, for which it is named. Unlike some other locks on the River Lee, it has not, in turn, given its name to more local the surrounding area.

Geography

The lock is located in the River Lee Country Park which is a part of the Lee Valley Park. The Seventy Acres Lake to the east is an important site for the bittern.^[1] To the west is North Met Pit, a mature gravel pit of 58 acres divided into two. It is another former gravel pit which is popular with anglers and naturalists.^[2]

Public access

Pedestrian and cycle access by the towpath which is part of the Lea Valley Walk.

Public transport

The nearest station is Cheshunt railway station.

Next lock upstream	River Lee Navigation	Next lock downstream
Aqueduct Lock 1.0 mile	Cheshunt Lock Grid reference: TL3700003169	Waltham Common Lock 1.0 mile

History

References

^ Bittern information Archived 20 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16 May 2008
^ North Met Pit Archived 25 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16 May 2008

External links

Cheshunt Lock - a history
Canal Plan UK details of current lock.

[1] Bittern information Archived 20 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16 May 2008

[2] North Met Pit Archived 25 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16 May 2008

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v t e Locks and weirs on the River Lea, England
Counties	Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Essex Greater London
Locks	Hertford Lock Ware Lock Hardmead Lock Stanstead Lock Feildes Weir Lock Dobbs Weir Lock Carthagena Lock Aqueduct Lock Cheshunt Lock Waltham Common Lock Waltham Town Lock Rammey Marsh Lock Enfield Lock Ponder's End Lock Pickett's Lock Stonebridge Lock Tottenham Lock Pond Lane Flood Gates Old Ford Lock Bow Locks
Weirs	Horns Mill Weir Hertford Castle Weir Hartham Weir Ware Weir Feildes Weir Dobbs Weir Carthagena Weir Kings Weir Newmans Weir Middlesex Filter Beds Weir
Hertford Union Canal (branch from Hackney Cut)	Hertford Union Bottom Lock No. 3 Hertford Union Middle Lock No. 2 Hertford Union Top Lock No. 1 Regent's Canal
Limehouse Cut (branch, at Bow Locks)	Bromley Stop Lock Britannia Stop Lock Limehouse Basin
Bow Back Rivers (branches of the Old River Lea)	Three Mills Lock City Mill Lock Carpenter's Road Lock Marshgate Lane Lock (defunct) Three Mills Wall River Weir (These rivers form the waterways within the 2012 Olympic Park - they flow into Bow Creek)