Upstream drop not available because Sandford Lock readings are not online Abingdon to Sandford, Abingdon to Culham, Environment Agency 'Out and About' Guides
Maps
Left bank, length: 120', width: 18'9"
Abingdon Weir for canoists.
See also.
1316: Complaint against John
de Salter, Abbot of Abingdon for so heightening his weir that both banks
above were often flooded.
His successor was drowned - see Abingdon Bridge.
1649: Abingdon Weir (the word Lock is used) built
by Sir George Stonehouse and Richard Adams, see photo of 1910.
1790: First Pound Lock built
1805: Abingdon Lock by William Turner of Oxford [not JMW Turner]
[ I thought at first it might just
be Nuneham Lock (I dont know if it was a pound lock or not) but compare the
heights of the church steeple in this and the 2002 photo this is Abingdon
Lock.]
Abingdon from the Thames Navigation, William Turner of Oxford, 1805.
1805: And then Byrne published this black and white print -
Abingdon from the Thames Navigation, Byrne, 1805.
Who copied whom?
Abingdon Lock, Henry Taunt -
Abingdon Lock, Henry Taunt, 1885
© Oxfordshire County Council Photographic Archive; HT3199
1890: Abingdon, the Lock from downstream, Francis Frith -
1890: Abingdon, the Lock from downstream, Francis Frith
1905: Lock rebuilt
1910: Fred Thacker
When I was through the lock in 1910 Mr. Drew the lockkeeper called my attention to a stone built into the left wall of the midmost of the three weirs -
This locke was bvilded by
Sr George Stonehouse and
Richard Adams Ann. 1649
Abingdon Lock stone, photo by lock keeper Mr Drew, 1910.
2002: -
Abingdon Lock, 2002
Swift Ditch
The Swift Ditch is now a weir stream leaving on the left bank
above the lock. It was at one time the main stream.
955-963: Ethelwolde made the cut which is now the main
navigation (according to Leland 1535)
1060: Oxford Petition to make the new stream
the main navigation.
1535: Leland
The chefe stream of Isis ran afore betwixt
Andersey Isle and Culneham, even where now the south End is of Culneham.
Ethelwolde, Abbate of Abbingdon, and after
Bishop of Winchestre, yn King Edgares days - caused -
a Gut to cum out of Isis by force to serve and purge thofficis of thabbay.
[ Which being translated means that the
beautiful course of the Thames at Abingdon,
and that lovely bridge, were all accidentally created because a medieval Abbot wanted
a flushing lavatory! The monks would then have used this new stream
to transport goods to and from the abbey. ]
1577: William Harrison, Description of England -
No part [of the Thames] at the first came so neere the towne as it doth now, till a branch thereof was led thither from the maine streame, thorough the industrie of the monks.
1624: Swift Ditch reopened as main navigation
1790: Main Navigation restored to the Abingdon Stream.
(Upstream to Nuneham Railway Bridge)
Estuary
PLA
QEII Br
Barrier
Tower Br
Custom Ho
London Br
; Frost Fairs
Cannon St Rb
The Great Stink
Southwark Br
Millenium Br
Blackfriars Rb
Blackfriars Br
Waterloo Br
Charing Cross Rb
Westminster Br
Lambeth Br
Vauxhall Br
Victoria Rb
Chelsea Br
Albert Br
Battersea Br
Battersea Rb
Wandsworth Br
Fulham Rb
Putney Br
Hammersmith Br
Barnes Rb
Chiswick Br
Kew Rb
Kew Br
RICHMOND
Twickenham Br
Richmond Rb
Richmond Br
TEDDINGTON
Kingston Rb
Kingston Br
Ditton Slip
Hampton Br
MOLESEY
SUNBURY
Walton Br
Desborough Cut
SHEPPERTON
Chertsey Br
CHERTSEY
M3 Br
Laleham Slip
PENTON HOOK
Staines Rb
Staines Br
Runnymede Br
BELL WEIR
Magna Carta Is
OLD WINDSOR
Albert Br
Datchet
Victoria Br
Black Potts Rb
ROMNEY
Eton
Windsor Br
Windsor Rb
Windsor Slip
Elizabeth Br
BOVENEY
Dorney Lake
York Cut
Summerleaze Fb
MonkeyIsland
New Thames Br
BRAY
Bray Slip
Maidenhead Rb
Maidenhead Br
Below Boulters
BOULTERS
Cliveden
Hedsor
COOKHAM
Cookham Slip
Cookham Br
BourneEnd RFb
Quarry Woods
A404 Br
MARLOW
Marlow Br
Bisham
TEMPLE
HURLEY
Medmenham
Culham Ct
Aston Slip
HAMBLEDEN
Temple Is
Fawley Ct
Remenham
Regatta
Phyllis Ct
Henley Slip
Leander
Red Lion
Henley Br
Angel on Br
Landing
Hobbs Boatyard
Hobbs Slipway
MARSH
Hennerton
Bolney
Wargrave
Shiplake Rb
R.Loddon
SHIPLAKE
Sonning Br
SONNING
Dreadnought
K&A Canal
CAVERSHAM
Reading Br
Caversham Br
Reading Slip
Purley
MAPLEDURHAM
Hardwick Ho
Whitchurch Br
WHITCHURCH
Hartswood Reach
Gatehampton Rb
Goring Gap
Goring Br
GORING
Swan
CLEEVE
Moulsford
Moulsford Rb
Papist Way Slip
Winterbrook Br
Wallingford Br
BENSON
Shillingford Br
R.Thame
DAYS
Burcot
Clifton Hampden
Clifton Church
Clifton H Br
Barley Mow
Long Wittenham
CLIFTON
Appleford Rb
Sutton Courtenay
Sutton Br
CULHAM
Culham Cut Fb
Abingdon Slip
Abingdon
Abingdon Br
ABINGDON
Nuneham Rb
Nuneham
Nuneham Park
Radley Boats
SANDFORD
Rose Island
Kennington Rb
Isis Br
Iffley Mill
IFFLEY
Oxford Rowing
Isis
Donnington Br
Riverside Slip
Boathouses
Punting
Lower Cherwell
Upper Cherwell
Islip
Head of River
Salters Steamers
Folly Br
Bacons Folly
Oxford Fb
Osney Fb
Weir stream
Osney Rb
Bullstake Stream
Osney Marina
OSNEY
Osney Br
Four Rivers
OLD RIVER
CANAL
Medley Weir Site
Medley Fb
Bossoms
Perch
Trout
GODSTOW
Godstow Nunnery
Godstow Br
Thames Br
KINGS
River Evenlode
EYNSHAM
Swinford Br
Oxford Cruisers
PINKHILL
Farmoor
Stanton Harcourt
Bablock Slip
Arks Weir Site
NORTHMOOR
Harts Fb
Rose Revived
Newbridge
Maybush
River Windrush
below Shifford
SHIFFORD
Shifford Fb
Tenfoot Fb
Trout Inn
Tadpole Br
RUSHEY
Old Mans Fb
RADCOT
Radcot Cradle Fb
Swan Inn
Radcot New Br
Radcot Old Br
GRAFTON
Eaton Hastings
Kelmscott
Eaton Fb
BUSCOT
Bloomers Hole Fb
Trout Inn
St Johns Br
ST JOHNS
Halfpenny Br
Marina Slip
LIMIT
Inglesham
Hannington Br
Kempsford
Castle Eaton Br
Marston Meysey
A419 Br
Cricklade
SOURCE?
THAMES HEAD
SEVEN SPRINGS