Shepperton Lock

Shepperton Lock
Shepperton lock (2005)
51°22′55.5″N 00°27′31″W / 51.382083°N 0.45861°W / 51.382083; -0.45861
Waterway	River Thames
County	Surrey
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Hydraulic
First built	1813
Latest built	1899
Length	53.16 m (174 ft 5 in) [1]
Width	6.04 m (19 ft 10 in)[1]
Fall	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)[1]
Above sea level	33 ft (10 m)
Distance to Teddington Lock	10 miles
Power is available out of hours

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Legend
River Thames above Chertsey Lock Abbey River (backwater of Thames) weir Chertsey Lock B375 Chertsey Bridge marina Pharaoh's Island Hamhaugh & Shepperton Lock Islands weirs and Shepperton Lock Bourne or the Chertsey Bourne Thames Lock (River Wey Navigation) weir of River Wey weir of River Wey navigable River Wey River Thames above Sunbury Lock

Shepperton Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in England by the left bank at Shepperton, Surrey.^{[n 1]} It is across the river from Weybridge which is nearby linked by a passenger ferry.

In 1813, the City of London Corporation built the pound lock and the short cuts (cuttings) – the nearer expanded an existing meander cutoff, beyond which lies a fresh cutting and old main stream of the river. These each have associated weirs. Shepperton Weir is between Shepperton Lock Island and Hamhaugh Island; and Shepperton Upper Weir is between Hamhaugh Island and the Hamm Court area of Addlestone, Surrey on the opposite bank.

Upstream of the lock island is the Thames Court pub/restaurant on the near bank, downstream of Pharaoh's Island which was given to Lord Nelson after the Battle of the Nile in 1798. The lock is the fifth from the estuary of the river of a total of forty-five.

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