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| x Fourteen Locks |
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Fourteen Locks (grid reference ST277886) is a series of locks on the Crumlin arm of the Monmouthshire Canal at Rogerstone in Newport, South Wales. The flight of locks was completed in 1799 and raises the water level 160 ft (50 m) in just 800 yd (740...
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| x Willamette Falls Locks |
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The Willamette Falls Locks are a lock system on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1873, it allows boat traffic on the Willamette to navigate beyond Willamette Falls. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the four inter...
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| x Locks on the C&O Canal |
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The Locks on the C&O; Canal, located in Maryland, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. of the United States, were numbered from 1 to 75 with two locks, 63⅓ and 64⅔, having fractional numbers and no lock 65. There is also a lock at the downstream end...
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| x Hiram M. Chittenden Locks |
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The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks are a complex of locks that sit in the middle of Salmon Bay, part of Seattle's Lake Washington Ship Canal. They are known locally as the Ballard Locks after the neighborhood to their north. (Magnolia lies to the south.)...
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| x Cannelton Locks and Dam |
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The Cannelton Locks and Dam is a concrete dam connected to two locks on the Ohio River at river mile 720.8. It is three miles (5 km) upstream from Cannelton, Indiana. The project was approved on January 27, 1960 by the Secretary of the Army under...
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| x Olmsted Locks and Dam |
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The Olmsted Locks and Dam is a concrete dam and locks project currently under construction on the Ohio River at river mile 964.4. It is located near Olmsted, Illinois. The lock chambers will be 110 feet (34 m) wide and 1,200 feet (370 m) long....
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| x McAlpine Locks and Dam |
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The McAlpine Locks and Dam refers to the series of locks and the hydroelectric dam in Louisville, Kentucky at the Falls of the Ohio. They are located at mile point 606.8 and control a 72.9 mile (117 km) long navigation pool. This was the first major...
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| x Soo Locks |
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The Soo Locks allow ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. The locks pass an average of 10,000 ships per year. This is achieved in spite of the locks being closed during the winter from January through March, when ice shuts...
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| x Bingley Five Rise Locks |
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Bingley Five Rise Locks is a staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley (grid reference SE107399). As the name implies, a boat going up the lock is lifted in five stages.
In effect the 5-rise consists of five locks connected together...
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| x Bingley Three Rise Locks |
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Bingley Three Rise Locks is a staircase of three locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1774 and was a major feat of engineering at the time along with the larger Five Rise opened at the same time...
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| x Delph Locks |
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Delph Locks or the Delph Nine are a series of eight (originally nine) narrow canal locks on the Dudley No. 1 Canal in Brierley Hill, in the West Midlands, England.
The bottom lock at Black Delph Bridge is at the termination of the Dudley Canal and...
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| x Foxton Locks |
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Foxton Locks (grid reference SP691895) are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after...
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| x Tardebigge Locks |
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Tardebigge Locks or the Tardebigge Flight is the longest flight of locks in the UK, comprising 30 narrow locks on a two and a quarter mile stretch of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge, Worcestershire. It raises the waterway some 220...
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| x Watford Locks |
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Watford Locks (grid reference SP592688) is a group of seven locks on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal, close to the village of Watford in Northamptonshire, England, famous for the Watford Gap service area.
The locks are formed (looking...
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| x Whilton Locks |
Whilton Locks is the name of a flight of locks on the Grand Union Canal near Daventry, in the county of Northamptonshire, England, UK.
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| x Caen Hill Locks |
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Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower...
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| x Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal |
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The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. The name may refer to either the route of the original Kennet and Avon Canal Company, which linked the River Kennet at Newbury to the River Avon at Bath, or to the entire navigation between...
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