Sonning Lock Weir Exit is on the River Thames (below Oxford).
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

Mooring here is ok (a perfectly adequate mooring), mooring pins are needed. Room for about two boats on the bend just below the lock.
You can wind here.
| Thames Valley Business Park | 1 mile, 3¾ furlongs | |
| Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake | 4 furlongs | |
| Sonning Lock Weir Entrance | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Sonning Lock | 2½ furlongs | |
| Sonning Bridge | ¼ furlongs | |
| Sonning Lock Weir Exit | ||
| Thames - St Patrick's Stream Junction | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
| Buck Ait | 1 mile, 2¾ furlongs | |
| Hallsmead Ait | 1 mile, 4¼ furlongs | |
| The Lynch | 1 mile, 6 furlongs | |
| Shiplake College Boathouses | 1 mile, 7½ furlongs | |
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![Old Iron Gate. On the river bank beside the Thames Path is this old iron gate that at one time must have opened onto a path leading to the French Horn Hotel.The path has vanished and the gate hasn't opened for decades by the look.The hotel name over the gate is still there in amongst the ivy leaves. [[3760905]]Quite a fancy piece of work just going to rust. by Des Blenkinsopp – 26 November 2013](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/76/09/3760919_3510b320_120x120.jpg)

![Reflections of Sonning Bridge [Berkshire side]. Taken from a narrowboat aiming for the navigable central arch. The 'postbox' was first noticed in July 2013. Despite appearances, it is just a plastic replica of the front panel of a real postbox. Hoax or work of art? by Christine Johnstone – 05 October 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/71/35/3713542_bbd20d79_120x120.jpg)

![Orange Way after Wiltshire (348). How did that postbox get there? See also http://nb-triskaideka.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/hello-old-father-thames.html.See also my photograph from 1998 at [[[3609307]]]. by Shazz – 17 August 2013](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/60/92/3609263_20e9ad14_120x120.jpg)






![Thames Path at Sonning. From the footbridge shown in [[1365851]], crossing the backwater past Sonning Eye. by Derek Harper – 08 February 2011](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/34/67/2346746_5642b157_120x120.jpg)

![No postbox here. I took this photograph of the downstream side of Sonning Bridge when walking the Thames Path in 1998. Now I am rewalking 64 miles of it on the Orange Way I find a postbox has appeared. See [[[3609263]]]. by Shazz – 12 August 1998](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/60/93/3609307_cbdc6576_120x120.jpg)









