Enfield Lock (lock)
Enfield Lock (No 13) is a lock on the River Lee Navigation, in the north-easternmost corner of Middlesex. (While the lock is wholly in Middlesex, the Essex boundary is just a few yards from the lock's eastern edge.) The gives its name to the surrounding area of Enfield Lock.
The lock is 84 feet long with a width of 16 feet, and it carries the Lea Navigation up and down by 9 feet 7 inches.
The lock is close to the former Royal Small Arms Factory now known as Enfield Island Village, across in Essex. It is the first of the smaller locks upstream to Hertford which were built to allow barges up to a maximum 100 tons.
The lock is located adjacent to Ordnance Road. Enfield Lock railway station is close by.
Name
Enfield Lock is recorded thus in 1710, earlier as Northlok 1355, The Locke 1657. The name shows the presence of a lock or barrier on the river long predating the canalisation of the Lea, the Middle English lok representing either.[1]
History
A lock on this site has been extant since 1725. The present day structure was re-built in 1922.[2] At the lock are red brick cottages and a Lee Conservancy Board toll office of 1889.[3] Below the lock, a water maintenance depot, with clock turret on the cruciform planned office building of 1907.[3]
Outside links
- Location map: 51°40’2"N, 0°1’6"W
- Enfield Lock video
- London canals- Enfield Lock
- Enfield Lock - a history
References
- ↑ Mills. A. D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p76 ISBN 0-19-860957-4
- ↑ Enfield Lock - a history Retrieved 26 August 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: London 4: North, 1998 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09653-8page 440