Using locks

More information is available on the Canal and Rivers Trust website, and in their Boaters Handbook. You can find this here: Boating through locks webpage.

For instructions on using locks at St John's, Buscot, Grafton, Radcot, Rushey, Shifford, Northmoor, Pinkhill, Eynsham, Kings, Blakes, and Sunbury, please view our document about Beam locks.

For instructions on using locks at Godstow, Osney, Iffley, Sandford, Abingdon, Culham, Clifton, Days, Benson, Cleeve, Goring, Whitchurch, Mapledurham, Caversham, Sonning, Shiplake, Marsh, Hurley, Temple, Marlow, Bray, and Boveney, please view our document about Halcyon locks.

For instructions on using locks at Boulters, Romney, Old Windsor, Bell Weir, Penton Hook, Chertsey, Shepperton, Sunbury and Molesey, please view our document about Sulby locks.

For instructions on how to use the lock at Hambleden, please view our document Hambleden lock.

For instructions on how to use the lock at Cookham, please view our document Cookham lock.