Whitchurch Lock is a lock and weir on the River Thames in England. It is a pound lock, built by the Thames Navigation Commissioners in 1787. It is on an island near the Oxfordshire village of Whitchurch-on-Thames and is accessible only by boat.
Whitchurch Lock with head gates open
Sketch of the flash lock before the building of the pound lock
View from near Gatehampton downstream towards Harts Lock Woods
Whitchurch Lock from downstream
Pangbourne is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in the West Berkshire unitary area of the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. Pangbourne has shops, churches, schools and a village hall. Outside its grouped developed area is an independent school, Pangbourne College.
Pangbourne village centre
St James the Less parish church
Village name sign by its secular parish hall with homes in background.
Pangbourne Bridge (period 1850-98) by Francis Frith