The River Avon is navigable for 44 miles from the River Severn at Tewkesbury to Stratford upon Avon. On the journey boats have to climb some 80 feet by means of 17 locks similar to Stan Clover Lock.
The River Avon was made navigable from as early as 1636 by William Sandys of Fladbury. But from the 1850s it suffered a slow decline and by 1945 was abandoned and in terminal decline.
CD Barnwell, encouraged by the Inlands Waterways Association formed a trust to reopen the navigation in 1962.
The lock was donated by the family of Stan Clover who worked untiringly for the navigation along with other volunteers without assistance the Trust could not have achieved its aim.
With its weir it was built by men from Gloucester Gaol. Seven-ton piling hammers were needed to break through layers of stone.
The entrance to the former round upper Luddington lock lies alongside the new structure.
The former lock cut is now a basin and pleasant overnight mooring from which a footpath runs along the river to Stratford.
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Parking is available on Luddington Road by the pretty thatched cottages.
Cache inspired by Wrighty - here's one for you to find.