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Fobney Lock is a lock on the
River Kennet in the
Small Mead area of
Reading in the
English county of Berkshire.
Between the lock cut for the lock and the...
- was su****ded by the
newly upgraded steam-powered
station downstream at
Fobney; Southcote's
water wheels and
pumps were mothballed.
Three years later,...
- Next lock
upstream River Kennet Next lock
downstream Fobney Lock
County Lock Grid
reference SU713729 Blake's Lock...
- in 1848 to 210,567. In the 1870s
water abstraction from the
canal near
Fobney Lock
followed the
regulations introduced in the
Reading Local Board Waterworks...
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artificially created lock cuts, and a
series of
locks including County,
Fobney, Southcote, Burghfield, Garston, Sheffield,
Sulhamstead and Tyle Mill, to...
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these rivers are navigable, and
Caversham Lock, Blake's Lock,
County Lock,
Fobney Lock and
Southcote Lock are all
within the borough. Today,
navigation is...
- (2.13 m) 104
Southcote Lock[B] SU693712 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) 105
Fobney Lock[B] SU705710 7 feet 8 inches (2.34 m) 106
County Lock[B] SU713729...
- is
accessible from
footpaths near
Burghfield Bridge,
Southcote Mill and
Fobney Lock, and the
towpath through Southcote is a
designated portion of National...
- here
canalised as part of the
Kennet and Avon Canal, just
downstream of
Fobney Lock and
Bridge 8A,
which carries the A33 over the Kennet. The
Kennet weaves...
- 1997/232)
County Council of the
Royal County of
Berkshire (River Kennet,
Fobney Bridge Reading)
Scheme 1996
Confirmation Instrument 1997 (S.I. 1997/233)...
