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as the navigations were controlled by different bodies. The lock, which maintained the canal at 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m) above the Thames (the same height as the mill weir) was 14 feet 10 inches (4.52 m) wide and 112 feet (34 m) long. Beyond the canal's
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at the wharf. Although sources suggest that the canal was not complete until 1814, reports exist of through-traffic of coal barges from the wharf to the Thames that were in operation in 1808.
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map marked the cut as "Old Canal". By 1913, there was no trace of the entrance lock and the cut was described as little more than a brook, and by 1926 the canal was described as "forgotten".
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opened and the railway crossed the canal by means of a single-span of 32 feet 10 inches (10.01 m). Embankments either side of the canal raised the railbed with a
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on the Oxford Canal, and it is he after whom Baker's Lock (number 40) on the Oxford Canal was named. Baker constructed two
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