Buscot Lock
Buscot Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, near the village of Buscot, Oxfordshire. The lock was built of stone by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1790 and is the smallest on the River Thames.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Buscot Old Parsonage and St John’s Lock.
Buscot Old Parsonage
Historic building
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buscot Old Parsonage is a historic building, which is situated 1,400 feet west of Buscot Lock.
St John’s Lock
Lock
Photo: Bencherlite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St John's Lock, below the town of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, is the furthest upstream lock on the River Thames in England. The name of the lock derives from a priory that was established nearby in 1250, but which no longer exists. St John’s Lock is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Buscot Lock.
Buscot Park
Garden
Photo: Rictor Norton & David Allen, CC BY 2.0.
Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. Buscot Park is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Buscot Lock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buscot and Kelmscott.
Buscot
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buscot is an English village and civil parish on the River Thames, about 1.5 miles south-east of Lechlade. Buscot was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Two houses there contain notable collections of paintings.
Kelmscott
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kelmscott is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in West Oxfordshire, about 2 miles east of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. Since 2001 it has absorbed Little Faringdon, which had been a separate civil parish.
Lechlade
Town
Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lechlade is a town at the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England, 55 miles south of Birmingham and 68 miles west of London. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable, although there is a right of navigation that continues south-west into Cricklade, in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire.
Buscot Lock
- Type: Lock
- Description: lock on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England
- Categories: footbridge and body of water
- Location: Buscot, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.68114° or 51° 40′ 52″ northLongitude
-1.66852° or 1° 40′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C3WM8JJ+FHOpenStreetMap ID
way 369743056OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lockWikidata ID
Q5001320
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Buscot Lock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
“Buscot Lock” goes by many names.
- German: “Buscot Lock”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mary the Virgin, Buscot and Village Well.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Buscot Weir Pool and Manor Farm.
Oxfordshire: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Oxford, Abingdon-on-Thames, Banbury, and Woodstock.
Curious Locks to Discover
Uncover intriguing locks from every corner of the globe.
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 “Buscot Lock”. Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.