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Bell Weir Lock

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939:) in 1811 was across the next bend upstream. The lock and embankments were built at its present site in the winter of 1817–1818. It was known as Egham Lock, but took its name from Charles "Charlie" Bell who founded in the 18th century an inn by the site, The Anglers Retreat, which he continued to operate when entrusted with keeping the lock and weir. The weir collapsed under weight of ice in 1827, so too the lock in 1866. Lock and weir were rebuilt in 1867. The lock had to be rebuilt in stone in 1877. A new weir was completed in 1904. 960: 603: 548: 500: 392: 359: 744: 684: 662: 636: 452: 297: 793: 717: 581: 555: 399: 263: 244: 764: 691: 629: 526: 507: 425: 366: 330: 323: 290: 819: 737: 710: 481: 230: 208: 800: 610: 373: 237: 921: 33: 771: 655: 574: 474: 445: 418: 337: 304: 270: 1078:
Harris and I began to think that Bell Weir lock must have been done away with ... It was half-past seven when we were through .... We had originally intended to go on to Magna Carta Island....But somehow we did not feel that we yearned for the picturesque nearly so much now as we had earlier in the
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is held near Hythe End in June; Wraysbury and Old Windsor Regatta is held in August. Pleasure boats from the recreation ground can be launched upstream. The refreshment terraces of a hotel and spa adjoin the lock; hot-tub tugs and others with awnings operate. Its restaurants are The Lock and the
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in 1817; it has one weir which is upstream. The lock is the eighth lowest of forty-five on the river and is named after the founder of the forerunner of the adjoining hotel who took charge of the lock and weir on its construction.
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National Archives, catalogue entry of photograph of 1883 of lock and the demolished former inn along with path by the Thames, Photographer: Henry W Taunt
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who designed an ornamental park gate house along the reach. The bridge has been widened and carries the
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day. A bit of water between a coal barge and a gasworks would have quite satisfied us for that night
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The meadow and riverside at Runnymede with a Lutyens gatehouse, as seen from the Kennedy Memorial
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http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/c58b30f0-710c-4870-960a-5be2aa9db911
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A proposed location for a pound lock (impounded water as opposed to a
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Index


River Thames
Surrey
Environment Agency
Teddington Lock
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Legend
River Thames
Old Windsor Lock
Friary Island
Pats Croft Eyot
Magna Carta Island
The Island
Bell Weir Lock
lock
River Thames
England
right bank
Runnymede
water meadow
Egham
Magna Carta
a bridge
Edwin Lutyens
M25
A30 road
span
Thames Navigation Commission

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