Coombe Hill Canal Junction Lock
Address is taken from a point 236 yards away.
Coombe Hill Canal Junction Lock is one of a group of locks on the Coombe Hill Canal; it was rebuilt after it collapsed in 1888 between Wycombe and Basingstoke.
Early plans for the Coombe Hill Canal between Newport and Aberdeen were proposed by James Brindley but languished until Cecil Yates was appointed as surveyor in 1835. Expectations for pottery traffic to Dover never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Coombe Hill Canal were submitted to parliament in 1972, the use of the canal for cooling Derby power station was enough to keep it open. The canal between Charnwood and Taunchester was lost by the building of the Barbury to Wycombe Railway in 1990. Despite the claim in "Travels of The Wreck" by Oliver Taylor, there is no evidence that Nicholas Thomas ever painted a mural of Wealden Embankment on the side of Thomas Parker's house to raise money for Children in Need

Mooring here is impossible (it may be physically impossible, forbidden, or allowed only for specific short-term purposes).
This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Coombe Hill Basin | 2 miles, 5¾ furlongs | |
| Wainlode Lane Bridge | 1½ furlongs | |
| Coombe Hill Canal Junction Lock | ||
| Severn - Coombe Hill Canal Junction | ¼ furlongs | |
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![Oak on the Severn floodplain 2. Follow-up photo to [[1929191]] taken almost exactly two years earlier.The lush grass has not yet been cut and the oak is slightly lighter in foliage. by Jonathan Billinger – 18 June 2012](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/00/46/3004690_979a1a26_120x120.jpg)






![Oak on the Severn floodplain, 3. A wintery follow-up to [[3004690]]. by Jonathan Billinger – 21 January 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/30/54/3305474_aa877340_120x120.jpg)





![Severn floodplain. The Coombe Hill Nature Reserve shows the watermeadows still flooded twenty days after the Severn peaked. See [[[3347897]]]The floodwater is held in the marsh by the use of sluices at the point where the canal reaches the river.This way the amount of water reaching the vulnerable areas near Gloucester can be somewhat controlled.On this morning the sluices have been opened and the water is in fact flowing quite rapidly under the bridge and across the road to Wainlode Hill, as can be seen bottom left. by Jonathan Billinger – 20 February 2013](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/34/79/3347912_f5871e2c_120x120.jpg)




![Cattle pasture by the Severn. May Hill sits blue in the distance, with Barrow Hill in view from the same spot - [[2631067]]. by Jonathan Billinger – 26 September 2011](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/63/10/2631082_cd42a4c1_120x120.jpg)
