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There would be a way with a chain with shackles. Undo and remove shackle, put chain down gap, reattach shackle. Ok, not as slick but still doable.

Nasturshums init

Don't be. You'll be able to add loads more than your solar panels and a few plant pots before you run into any issues.

It's not. The gates are steel and the collar attaches to an iron plate on the lock side but apart from that it’s a standard masonry lock.

Don't think it was ever implemented.

Ah, I see what you mean now. I read Hawford as Hanbury.

Eberspacher do 12v and 24v roof mounted systems. Can't see the power usage anywhere though. https://eberspacherdirect.com/eberspacher-cooltronic/ Oh, and not cheap either.

Either way still makes sense though. The CCT map equivalent would be numbering outwards from Droitwich. Anyway, in my head if you had to number the locks it just makes sense numbering the Cotswolds from west to east.

The Stroudwater, and Thames and Severn for that matter, locks never had numbers just names were referenced that way in documents. Someone produced a basic map in the early 2000s for the website and copied the Huddersfield way of doing things with 6W, 10E, etc. which kind of made sense. I can't remember who originally produced the map referenced in the posts above which was adopted by the CCT but the numbers are just for clarity and the key gives the names of the locks. What really does grate with me with that map is that they've started the numbering of the locks from Stroud with the Thames and Severn numbered from west to east and the Stroudwater from east to west. The Stroudwater was constructed first and so if that numbering system was in use then, the first lock you got to off the Severn would have been lock 12 (if you counted each chamber of Ryeford Double as a lock on its own).

I didn’t say I was interested in the rest of the pictures. I was just correcting you.

Showing completed as of 11:18 this morning https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/019ec6e3-ae71-7ae9-ab8f-57f8abac758e

The OP hasn’t been back since 2018 so I doubt we’ll ever find out if it is the correct one.

But even the key to the map shows it as Dock Lock.

Firstly it is the Stroudwater Navigation not the Cotswold Canal. Secondly, why are you calling that "Lock 8"? That is Dock Lock. The locks all have names.

I do hate it when the forum software assumes that if the same person posts consecutive posts then they want them merged and then doesn't let you edit it.