Ware Lock

Ware Lock
Ware Lock
Waterway	River Lee Navigation
County	Hertfordshire
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Manual
First built	1855
Length	85 feet (25.9 m)
Width	16 feet (4.9 m)
Fall	7 feet 6 inches (2.3 m)
Distance to Bow Creek	25 miles (40 km)
Distance to Hertford Castle Weir	1.3 miles (2.1 km)
Coordinates	51°48′39″N 0°02′28″W / 51.810842°N 0.041049°W / 51.810842; -0.041049Coordinates: 51°48′39″N 0°02′28″W / 51.810842°N 0.041049°W / 51.810842; -0.041049

Ware Lock (No2) is a lock on the River Lee Navigation at Ware. The lock stands adjacent to Ware Weir and is the only lock on the Navigation to be operated and maintained by the Environment Agency. ^[1]

Public access

The lock stands on the River Lee Navigation towpath which forms part of the Lea Valley Walk.

Next lock upstream	River Lee Navigation	Next lock downstream
Hertford Lock 0.5 mile	Ware Lock Grid reference: TL3502914331	Hardmead Lock 2.5 miles

Locks and Weirs on the River Lea, England

Counties	Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Essex Greater London

Locks	Hertford Lock Ware Lock Hardmead Lock Stanstead Lock Feildes Weir Lock Dobbs Weir Lock Carthagena Lock Aqueduct Lock Cheshunt Lock Waltham Common Lock Waltham Town Lock Rammey Marsh Lock Enfield Lock Ponder's End Lock Pickett's Lock Stonebridge Lock Tottenham Lock Pond Lane Flood Gates Old Ford Lock Bow Locks

Weirs	Horns Mill Weir Hertford Castle Weir Hartham Weir Ware Weir Feildes Weir Dobbs Weir Carthagena Weir Kings Weir Newmans Weir Middlesex Filter Beds Weir

Hertford Union Canal (branch from Hackney Cut)	Hertford Union Bottom Lock No. 3 Hertford Union Middle Lock No. 2 Hertford Union Top Lock No. 1 Regent's Canal

Limehouse Cut (branch, at Bow Locks)	Bromley Stop Lock Britannia Stop Lock Limehouse Basin

Bow Back Rivers (branches of the Old River Lea)	Three Mills Lock City Mill Lock Carpenter's Road Lock (Under restoration, est. completion March 2017) Marshgate Lane Lock (defunct) Three Mills Wall River Weir (These rivers form the waterways within the 2012 Olympic Park - they flow into Bow Creek)

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