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Norwood Top Lock (No 90)

Key Words :- canal

Address :- Glade Lane, London, Greater London
Grid Ref :- TQ 1369 7936
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.501751 , Long -0.363443
Local Authority :- Ealing London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Middlesex
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No :- 1358764,
Site Condition :- Operational site, in use for original purpose

Description and History of Site:-
The last of eleven locks up from Thames, with maintenance depot, gauging office, lockhouse and bridge.

It marks the end of a 25-mile pound from Slough, Cowley, Camden and Paddington.

The two-storey lock keeper's cottage is listed Grade 2.

Adjacent concrete bridge over Maypole Dock, concrete-lined 'Margarine' arm, 1913, half-mile to food factories, including Quaker Oats, 135793-131798.


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