County Lock

County Lock is a lock on the River Kennet in Reading town centre in the English county of Berkshire. It is now administered by the Canal & River Trust as part of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Reading Railway Station and Reading Abbey.

Reading Railway Station

Railway station

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Reading railway station is a major transport hub in the town of Reading in Berkshire, England, it is 36 miles west of London Paddington. It is sited on the northern edge of the town centre, near to the main retail and commercial areas and the River Thames.

Reading Abbey

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Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors and successors." In its heyday the abbey was one of Europe's largest royal monasteries.

Madejski Stadium

Stadium

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The Madejski Stadium, currently known as the Select Car Leasing Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is the home of Reading Football Club, who play in EFL League One.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Earley and Lower Earley.

Earley

Suburb

Photo: Virginia Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Earley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England. Along with the neighbouring town of Woodley, the Office for National Statistics places Earley within the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area; for the purposes of local government it falls within the Borough of Wokingham, outside the area of Reading Borough Council.

Lower Earley

Suburb

Photo: Rosalind Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lower Earley is a suburb of Earley, a town in Berkshire, England. Lower Earley is a predominantly lower-density residential area lying on the northern banks of the River Loddon.

Caversham

Suburb

Photo: Jystyn, Public domain.

Reading is a large, historic town in Berkshire in the South East of England. It is one of the largest towns without city status in the United Kingdom with just under 235,000 inhabitants.

County Lock

Type: River
Description: lock on the River Kennet in the English town of Reading
Categories: lock and body of water
Location: Reading, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.4511° or 51° 27′ 4″ north

Longitude

-0.9736° or 0° 58′ 25″ west

Open location code

9C3XF22G+FH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 256190751

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=river

Wikidata ID

Q3577622

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Satellite Map

Discover County Lock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

“County Lock” goes by many names.

French: “Brewery Gut”
French: “Écluse de County”
French: “écluse du comté”
French: “Écluse du comté”
French: “Écluse du Comté”
“County Lock”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Katesgrove and Coley.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St Giles’s Mill Stream and Reading Borough Council Civic Offices.

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