Clifton Lock Short Term Moorings is on the River Thames (below Oxford) near to Arun.
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

Mooring here is excellent (this is a really good mooring), mooring rings or bollards are available. Mooring is limited to 24 hours. Although moorings are for 24hrs they are chargeable overnight and need to be booked & paid for at the lock (£10 for 60ft narrowboat in 2022). Upstream of the moorings for lock operations.
| Culham Lock Weir Exit | 2 miles, 7¼ furlongs | |
| Didcot Power Station Outlet | 2 miles, 4 furlongs | |
| Appleford Railway Bridge | 1 mile, 5¼ furlongs | |
| Clifton Lock Weir Entrance No 2 | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Clifton Cut Bridge | 1½ furlongs | |
| Clifton Lock Short Term Moorings | ||
| Clifton Lock Weir Entrance No 1 | ½ furlongs | |
| Clifton Lock | ¾ furlongs | |
| Clifton Lock Weir Exit No 2 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Moorings above Clifton Hampden Bridge | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Clifton Hampden Bridge | 6 furlongs | |
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![South end of Clifton Lock. There is an OS flush bracket [[4317265]] in the concrete block in the centre of the image by Roger Templeman – 19 January 2015](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/31/73/4317399_07ee9f78_120x120.jpg)





















