Pond Lane Flood Gates

Infobox Waterlock
lock_name=Pond Lane Flood Gates

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caption=Redundant flood gates, at the top of Hackney Cut, on the Lee Navigation.
waterway=River Lee Navigation
county=Hackney
Greater London
operation=redundant
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width=
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enda=Bow Creek
distenda=convert|3.0|mi|km|1|lk=on
endb=Hertford Castle Weir
distendb=convert|23.3|mi|km|1
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lat= 51.560858
long=-0.043645

Pond Lane Flood Gates (No18) is redundant lock on the River Lee Navigation in the London Borough of Hackney, at Lea Bridge Road.

History

The flood gates were built as part of a scheme to control the navigation in the Bow Back Rivers and to protect the area above this point against flooding from the River Thames. They were originally used in conjunction with a tidal lock on Marshgate Lane. With the alteration of the Bow Back River system in the 1930s, new locks were added at Carpenter's Road and City Mill – mainly to provide barge access to Temple Mills.

The disuse of the Bow Back River locks in the 1960s, and the construction of the Thames Barrier caused the flood gates to become redundant and they were finally removed in 1987. [ [http://www2.mihalis.net/canal/cgi-bin/gazette.cgi?where=$9td3 Pond Lane flood gates] Retrieved July 14 2008] The footbridge over the lock still remains.

Location

The remains of the flood gates are located south of the Lea Bridge Road at Lea Bridge and adjacent to the former Middlesex Filter Beds now a nature reserve.

Public transport

Clapton railway station

Public access

Walking and cycling access via the Lea Valley Walk

References

External links

* [http://www.leevalleypark.org.uk/EN/default.aspx?n1=3&n2=65&n3=67 Middlesex Filter Beds]
* [http://www.mike-stevens.co.uk/metrocuts/lee/pondlane.htm Pond Lane flood gates]