Shifford Lock
Shifford Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England. It is in the centre of a triangle formed by the small villages of Shifford, Duxford and Chimney in Oxfordshire.Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Cote Baptist Church.
Church of St Mary
Church
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Church of St Mary is situated 3,000 feet north of Shifford Lock.
Cote Baptist Church
Church
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Cote Baptist Church stands in Shifford Road, Cote, 1 mile to the east of Aston and 4 miles to the east of Bampton, in Oxfordshire, England. It is a redundant Baptist chapel in the care of Friends of Friendless Churches. Cote Baptist Church is situated 1½ miles northwest of Shifford Lock.
Mulberry Bush School
School
The Mulberry Bush Charity was founded in 1948 as an independent residential special school in the village of Standlake in Oxfordshire, for children aged 5 to 12 years; nowadays it is a not-for-profit charity. Mulberry Bush School is situated 1½ miles northeast of Shifford Lock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shifford and Chimney.
Shifford
Hamlet
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Shifford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the north bank of the River Thames about 6 miles south of Witney.
Chimney
Hamlet
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Chimney is a hamlet and in the civil parish of Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the River Thames near Shifford Lock, 6 miles south of Witney.
Duxford
Hamlet
Duxford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hinton Waldrist, 5.5 miles northeast of Faringdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Shifford Lock
- Type: Lock
- Description: lock on the River Thames, England
- Categories: footbridge and body of water
- Location: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney, West Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.70713° or 51° 42′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.4652° or 1° 27′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C3WPG4M+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 369799204OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lockWikidata ID
Q7496216
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In Other Languages
“Shifford Lock” goes by many names.
- German: “Shifford Lock”
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Highlights include Coronation Plantation and Standlake Common Nature Reserve.
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