Lee Navigation

Lee Navigation
Lee Navigation at Bow Creek
Specifications
Length	27.5 miles (44.3 km)
Maximum boat length	88 ft 0 in (26.82 m)
Maximum boat beam	15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)
Locks	21
Status	Open
Navigation authority	Canal & River Trust
History
Principal engineer	Thomas Yeoman
Other engineer(s)	Edward Rubie
Date of act	29 June 1767
Date completed	1771
Geography
Start point	Hertford Castle Weir
End point	River Thames
Branch(es)	Stort Navigation Hertford Union Canal Bow Back Rivers Limehouse Cut

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Legend
Hertford Castle Weir Hertford Town Mill Bridge Folly Bridge Hertford Basin River Beane Hertford Lock No.1 River Rib New River Gauge House  A10  Ware Weir Ware Lock No.2 Ware Visitor Moorings  A1170  Ware Town Bridge Hardmead Lock No.3 River Ash Stanstead Lock No.4 (Swing Bridge over Lock)  B181   A414  Stort Navigation Feildes Weir Lock No.5 New River continues down Flood Relief Channel Dobbs Weir Flood Relief Channel sluice Dobbs Weir Lock No.6 Nazeing Mead (lake) River Lynch Boating Lakes Carthagena Lock No.7 52 New Nazeing Road Bridge Flood Relief Channel Broxbourne Mill Kings Weir 49 Slipe Lane Bridge Holyfield Lake Aqueduct Lock No.8 Small River Lea Cheshunt Lock No.9 Seventy Acres Lake (R) Waltham Common Lock No.10 Powdermill Cut Waltham Town Lock No.11 42  A121  Waltham Town Bridge Horsemill Stream sluice 40A  M25  Cobbins Brook Rammey Marsh Lock No.12 40 Rammey Marsh Bridge Cattlegate Flood Relief Channel Enfield Lock No.13 37A Enfield Road Bridge Turkey Brook + Pumping Stn King George's Reservoir King George's Reservoir Ponders End Mill Stream 35  A110  Lea Valley Road Bridge Ponder's End Locks No.14 William Girling Reservoir PS River Lee Diversion Pickett's Lock No.15 28  A406  Bleak Hall Bridge Banbury Reservoir Stonebridge Locks No.16 Lockwood Reservoir Maynard Reservoirs Tottenham Locks No.17 River Lee Flood Relief Channel 24  A503  Ferry Lane Bridge 23 Tottenham Railway Bridge 22 Markfield Railway Bridge 19A Ferry Railway Bridge 18  A104  Lea Bridge Road Pond Lane Flood Gates No.18 17  B112  Cow Bridge 14  A12  East Cross Route Bridge 12 Hackney Wick Railway Bridge 11 White Post Lane Bridge + Halfway Bridge Hertford Union Canal Bow Back Rivers Old Ford Locks No.19 London Stadium District line Bridge Bow Back Rivers A11 Bow Bridge Three Mills tide mill + Three Mills Lock Bow Locks Limehouse Cut + Bow Creek  A13  Barking Road Bridge Limehouse Basin Limehouse Lock +  A1020  River Thames

The Lee Navigation is a canalised river incorporating the River Lea (also called the River Lee along the sections that are navigable). It flows from Hertford Castle Weir to the River Thames at Bow Creek; its first lock is Hertford Lock and its last Bow Locks.