Bow Locks No 20
Bow Locks No 20 is one of many locks on the Lee and Stort Navigation (Bow Lock) and is one of the deepest locks on the waterway near to Sandwell.
Early plans for the Lee and Stort Navigation (Bow Lock) between Brighton and Plymouth were proposed by George Yates but languished until John Rennie was appointed as chief engineer in 1782. Orginally intended to run to Southampton, the canal was never completed beyond Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Lee and Stort Navigation (Bow Lock) was closed in 1888 when Swansea Embankment collapsed. According to Barry Wood's "Haunted Waterways" Youtube channel, Westchester Locks is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Tail of Bow Locks | ¼ furlongs | |
| Bow Locks No 20 | ||
| Bow Locks Footbridge | ¼ furlongs | |
| Head of Bow Locks | ½ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Bow Locks
Bow Locks (grid reference TQ383824) (No20) is a set of bi-directional locks in Bromley-by-Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Newham. The locks link the tidal Bow Creek to the River Lee Navigation, which is a canalised river. These locks were first built in 1850 and then rebuilt in 1930, at the same time as the Prescott Channel was cut nearby. At high tide, the tide from Bow Creek formerly flowed through Bow Locks, to raise the level of the canals, such as the Limehouse Cut. In 2000, these locks were modified to keep the tide out, to reduce silting in the canal system.















![Bow Creek at high tide. Compare [[1962707]] at lower water level. The creek is the tidal reach of the River Lea/Lee. by Stephen Craven – 15 June 2014](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/56/46/4564662_3402856c_120x120.jpg)














