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Deep Creek Lock

580 Hinton Avenue, Chesapeake, VA 23323, United States of America

Deep Creek Lock is one of a group of locks on the Dismal Swamp Canal Route (Dismal Swamp Canal) and unusually is opened with a crank handle.

Early plans of what would become the Dismal Swamp Canal Route (Dismal Swamp Canal) were drawn up by Hugh Henshall in 1888 but problems with Cambridge Boat Lift caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. In 1888 the Kingston-upon-Hull and Chester Canal built a branch to join at Oldham. Expectations for manure traffic to Nuneaton were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Dismal Swamp Canal Route (Dismal Swamp Canal) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the carriage of coal from Cheltenham to Oxford prevented closure. The Dismal Swamp Canal Route (Dismal Swamp Canal) was closed in 1905 when Wycombe Locks collapsed. In 1972 the canal became famous when Oliver Taylor swam through Southford Cutting in 17 minutes live on television.

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Deep Creek Lock is a minor waterways place on the Dismal Swamp Canal Route (Dismal Swamp Canal) between Pasquotank River Entrance (This gives access to the Dismal Swamp Canal.) (61.81 miles and 1 lock to the southeast) and Deep - Elizabeth Junction (Junction of the Elizabeth River with Deep Creek. This gives access to the Dismal Swamp Canal.) (2.83 miles to the east).

The nearest place in the direction of Pasquotank River Entrance is George Washington Highway Bridge; 0.47 miles away.

The nearest place in the direction of Deep - Elizabeth Junction is Dismal Swamp - Deep Creek Junction (Junction of the Dismal Swamp Canal with the Deep Creek); 0.23 miles away.

Mooring here is unrated.

This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.

	Main Street Bridge (South Mills)	21.77 miles
	Highway 17 Bridge	20.89 miles
	McPherson Road Bridge	17.36 miles
	Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center	17.27 miles
	George Washington Highway Bridge	0.47 miles
	Deep Creek Lock
	Dismal Swamp - Deep Creek Junction	0.23 miles

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[Dismal Swamp Canal] is the city of Chesapeake, where the northern portion of the canal at Deep Creek connects with the Southern Branch Elizabeth River. The southern end of [Erie Canal] (Enlarged), Empire Lock Number 29" HAER No. NY-152, "Erie Canal (Enlarged), Oothout Culvert & Waste Weir" HAER No. NY-157, "Eagle's Nest Creek Culvert" HAER [Ohio and Erie Canal] Twelve Mile Lock 38, Cuyahoga Valley National Park Peninsula Lock 29, Peninsula Aqueduct steel trusses over Cuyahoga River in background. Deep Lock 28 as it [Locks on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] is also the Tidewater Lock, sometimes called Lock 0, lock at the downstream end of the canal in Washington, D.C., where Rock Creek flows into the Potomac [Lock Haven, Pennsylvania] and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, itself part of the Williamsport–Lock Haven combined statistical [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] boat entering Goose Creek. The lock was eventually converted into a waste weir. The Shenandoah river (about 422 feet below Lock 33) lock let boats cross to [Trinity River (Texas)] Cedar Creek Mountain Creek Fossil Creek (Texas) Johnson Creek Red Oak Creek Richland Creek White Rock Creek Rowlett Creek Big Creek Fourmile Creek Five [List of Dawson's Creek episodes] Dawson's Creek, an American television series, was created by Kevin Williamson, who was the executive producer until the end of the show's second season [Sunbury Lock] Sunbury Lock is a lock complex of the River Thames in England near Walton-on-Thames in north-west Surrey, the third lowest of forty four on the non-tidal [Monongahela River] Dam 4 Maxwell Lock & Dam Grays Landing Lock & Dam Point Marion Lock and Dam Morgantown Lock and Dam Hildebrand Lock and Dam Opekiska Lock and Dam According

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