Wire Lock
Wire Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Hungerford, Berkshire, England. It is a grade II listed building.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hungerford railway station and Kintbury railway station.
Hungerford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hungerford railway station is a railway station that serves the historic market town of Hungerford in Berkshire, England. It is 61 miles 43 chains measured from the zero point at London Paddington. Hungerford railway station is situated 1½ miles west of Wire Lock.
Kintbury railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kintbury railway station serves the village of Kintbury in Berkshire, England. It is situated on the Reading to Taunton Line, 58 miles 38 chains from London Paddington. Kintbury railway station is situated 1½ miles east of Wire Lock.
Hungerford Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hungerford Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Hungerford, Berkshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Hungerford Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. Hungerford Town Hall is situated 1½ miles west of Wire Lock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avington and Lower Denford.
Avington
Hamlet
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kintbury, in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England.
Lower Denford
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Denford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Kintbury in the English county of Berkshire. The settlement lies adjacent to the A4 road, and is located approximately 1 mile east of Hungerford.
Upper Denford
Hamlet
Upper Denford is a hamlet in Berkshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Kintbury. The settlement lies north of the A4 road, and is located approximately 1.5 miles north-east of Hungerford.
Wire Lock
- Type: Lock gate
- Description: lock on Kennet And Avon Canal
- Categories: lock, road bridge, and transportation
- Location: Kintbury, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4104° or 51° 24′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.47976° or 1° 28′ 47″ westHeight
6.8 feet (2.1 metres)Open location code
9C3WCG6C+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 442730217OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=lock_gateWikidata ID
Q3577619
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In Other Languages
“Wire Lock” goes by many names.
- French: “écluse de Wire”
- French: “Écluse de Wire”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wire Lock”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.