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Sheffield Lock is a canal lock situated on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire. The lock dates from the early nineteenth century and forms part of the engineering infrastructure associated with the canal's construction and operation between 1794 and 1810. As a surviving example of Georgian canal engineering, it retains features characteristic of the period's lock construction, including its masonry and timber elements. The lock represents the practical application of late eighteenth-century canal technology and remains significant as part of the broader network of inland waterway transport that served commercial and industrial purposes during the Industrial Revolution.
Sheffield (or Shenfield) Lock is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006972. View the official record →
Sheffield Lock is a canal lock situated on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006972.
Sheffield (or Shenfield) Lock is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006972.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow: part of a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs (5.5 km), Round barrow cemetery at Holden's Firs (5.6 km), Bowl barrow in Stephen's Firs: an outlier to a barrow cemetery in Holden's Firs (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Sheffield (or Shenfield) Lock's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Sheffield (or Shenfield) Lock stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.