River Trent - Lock 8 - Meadow Lane Lock - Nottingham, UK - Waterway Locks, Planes and Lifts on Waymarking.com

This is lock 8 on the River Trent Navigations, known as Meadow Lane lock.

Even though it is part of the River Trent Navigations this stretch was the eastern end of the Nottingham canal which used to run all the way up to Langley Mill to meet the Erewash and Cromford canals. Only the section between Trent Bridge and Lenton is now navigable.


This used to be lock number 1 on the Nottingham canal. The Beeston Cut joins the Nottingham canal at Lenton and the Nottingham canal is disused from Lenton to Langley Mill. The area at Lenton is called Lenton Chain as the canal company used to lock a chain across the canal here to stop traffic passing through at night without paying a toll.

The lock numbering starts at 1 at the western end of the navigation at Shardlow down to lock 15 at Newark where the river becomes tidal. Part of the navigation bypasses the river and goes along the Nottingham and Beeston canals. As these canals have a few of the 15 locks the number of locks on the river can be quoted as 15 or fewer depending on whether the canal locks are considered. Sometimes the figure is even lower as some documentation/maps ignore the flood locks.

The River Trent is navigable for 100 miles from Shardlow down to the Humber and the North Sea. It has been used as a navigation since the Bronze Age and it was heavily maintained by the Romans who also built the Foss Dyke to link the Trent to Lincoln.

Waterway Name: River Trent Connected Points: The River Trent is navigable from Shardlow out to the Humber and the North Sea. At Shardlow it joins up with the Trent & Mersey canal. At Derwent Mouth it is met by the River Derwent which is no longer navigable. At Trent Lock it has a junction with the Erewash canal and also the River Soar; these two waterways are now part of the Grand Union canal. Further downstream it joins the Chesterfield canal, the Foss Dyke, and the South Yorkshire Navigations. The Grantham canal used to join it at Trent Bridge in Nottingham but is now disused but there are ambitious plans to restore this waterway. The navigation through Nottingham is via the Nottingham and Beeston canals. Type: Lock Date Opened: 01/01/1796 Elevation Difference (meters): 3.00 Site Status: Operational Web Site: [Web Link] Date Closed (if applicable): Not listed

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