Carrotts Lock / Willows Lock Tf 352892

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

KEDDINGTON SOUTH COCKERINGTON TF 38 NE ROAD (north side) Willows Lock 8/30 TF 352892 15.4.85 II

Lock. 1767, by John Grundy. Red brick, limestone ashlar dressings, some timber and cast iron. Lock chamber walls of 4 concave brick sections on each side with timber post between them which are partially hidden by large ashlar blocks. The tops are coped with similar ashlar blocks. At either end the exposed timber beams survive where the original lock gates would have hung, likewise some of the cast iron fittings. The end sections of the embankment slope downwards to curved ends and contained arched brick openings for over shoots. Navigation abandoned in 1924.

This lock is referred to as Carrotts Lock in N Wright, A Guide to the Indus- trial Archaeology of Lincolnshire p.21.

Listing NGR: TF3520089200

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0265 IOE Records taken by Colin David Broome; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Colin David Broome. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project