Aqueduct Lock

Aqueduct Lock
	Looking south, the lock and the lock-keeper's cottage
Waterway	River Lee Navigation
County	Hertfordshire; Essex
Maintained by	British Waterways
Operation	Manual
Length	85 feet (25.9 m)
Width	16 feet (4.9 m)
Fall	5 feet 6 inches (1.7 m)
Distance to ; Bow Creek	15.5 miles (24.9 km)
Distance to ; Hertford Castle Weir	10.8 miles (17.4 km)
Coordinates	51.721937°N 0.014299°W

Aqueduct Lock (No8) is a lock on the River Lee Navigation close to Turnford.

Location

The lock is located in the River Lee Country Park and is adjacent to the Old River Lea and the 180-acre (0.73 km²) Holyfield Lake which incorporates part of the River Lee Flood Relief Channel

The aqueduct above the lock carries the Small River Lea under the Navigation, which flows from the nearby Old River Lea.

The aqueduct

Vehicular access at Wharf Road, Wormley car park.

Pedestrian and cycles via the towpath which forms part of the Lea Valley Walk.

Next lock upstream	River Lee Navigation	Next lock downstream
Carthagena Lock 2 miles	Aqueduct Lock Grid reference: TL3714204496	Cheshunt Lock 1 mile

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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)