Which lock?

[Iain_S]

2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

All over what became England, recently arrived Saxons in the fifth century or so asked a recently conquered local "What's that called?"

The answer they got, "That's called a river", or "That's called a hill". 😀

Could have ended up as the River Eichbyschiffwl, from the original answer,  "eich bys, chi ffwl" .

[Mac of Cygnet]

Reading the original article, it says that they have spent their time continuously cruising the River Lea and Regents Canal, so if the pic is of their boat while they had it, then all these other places seem unlikely.  I've looked at my pics and others online of Lea (and Stort) locks, but can't find any revealing metal piled sides, although the lockside structures of some look similar

Edited November 13, 2023 by Mac of Cygnet
To add a bit

[Captain Pegg]

The piled locks on the Warwickshire Avon are those on the Upper Avon and all have cranked metal gates.

 

The Lower Avon locks have conventional wooden balance beams but are all masonry chambers.

 

It's not a Warwickshire Avon lock.

[magpie patrick]

I'm wondering if it's the lock at the entrance to Roydon Marina - I've never seen this lock (I've seen every other Lee and Stort Lock many years ago) and to me it is a bit of a mythical beast, I'm not even certain it exists!

[StephenA]

7 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

I'm wondering if it's the lock at the entrance to Roydon Marina - I've never seen this lock (I've seen every other Lee and Stort Lock many years ago) and to me it is a bit of a mythical beast, I'm not even certain it exists!

 

You could well be right

 

 

https://canalplan.org.uk/place/r74p

 

Edited November 13, 2023 by StephenA

[magnetman]

Definitely 

 

So I was right in post #2 about the general area despite never having been there. 

[David Mack]

And has wooden copings to the piling on the approaches (although you can't see in the lock itself):

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3488747

[StephenA]

50 minutes ago, David Mack said:

And has wooden copings to the piling on the approaches (although you can't see in the lock itself):

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3488747

If you enlarge the canalplan photo and look through the gap in the gate you can see the wooden copings