NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL

NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL, RED LION LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174062
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL
Statutory Address:: NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL, RED LION LANE

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Date:: 2001-07-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174062
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL, RED LION LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NASH MILLS LOCK ON GRAND UNION CANAL, RED LION LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Kings Langley
County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Nash Mills
National Grid Reference:: TL 06880 04575

Details

KINGS LANGLEY RED LION LANE TL 00 SE (North side) 7/163 - Nash Mills Lock on Grand Union Canal

GV II

Canal Lock. Circa 1797 as a lock on the Grand Junction Canal Company (became Grand Union Canal by amalgamation 1929). Date 1877 on iron hinge of upper gate may mark repairs. Early C20 steps and revetment next lower gate. Brick and stone masonry basin with brown engineering brick steps and revetment next lower gate. Wooden gates with steel extensions to beams. Lock 88ft by 16ft to accommodate narrow boats in pairs. Gate and ground paddles to upper gates, gate paddles only to lower gates. (Branch Johnson (1970)118-20). The eastern half of the lock lies in Abbots Langley civil parish in Three Rivers District.

Listing NGR: TL0688004575

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Legacy System number:: 157694
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 118-20

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.