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Sideling Lock No 56

 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail, Pearre, Washington County, MD, United States of America
 
Information about the place
Sideling Lock No 56 is a minor waterways place on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Guard Lock No 8 (46.87 miles and 18 locks to the west) and Rock Creek (Junction of the Potomac River with Rock Creek ) (137.64 miles and 56 locks to the southeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Guard Lock No 8 is Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct; 0.36 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Rock Creek is Long Hollow Lock No 55; 2.28 miles away.

There may not be access to the towpath here.

Mooring here is unrated.

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

 
 
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Wikipedia pages that might relate to Sideling Lock
[Sideling] Turnpike tunnels Sideling Hill Wildlife Management Area, Maryland Sideling Lock, one of several Locks on the C&O Canal In Australia: Sideling Range, Tasmania [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] Locks 45–46, Lock 47 (Four Locks), Lock 44 (Shepherdstown), above Lock 14 (near Carderock), Edwards Ferry (Lock 25), and in the rear of Lock 10 (Seven Locks) [Locks on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal] 64+2⁄3) and none numbered 65. There is also the Tidewater Lock, sometimes called Lock 0, lock at the downstream end of the canal in Washington, D.C., where [Cut (earthworks)] Spain Olive Mount cutting, Liverpool, England Talerddig cutting, Wales Sideling Hill Cut on I-68 Pikeville Cut-Through on U.S. Route 23 in Kentucky Cut-and-cover [Aqueducts on the C&O Canal] other aqueducts, this one has a waste weir as part of the masonry. The Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct (#8) was begun in 1837. was completed in Spring 1850 [Forbes Road] the valley south of Hustontown, and most regrettably, the switchbacks up Sideling Hill. Heading west, US 30 soon parallels the turnpike, and near Breezewood [Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park] previous photo) Lock 74, with Lock 73 in background. Lock 75, the last lock on the Canal before Cumberland. Looking upstream from Lock 75. From here the [Blue Knob (Pennsylvania)] Tussey Mountain (16 miles), Jacks Mountain with Butler Knob (31 miles), Sideling Hill (28 miles), and on the distant horizon Big Mountain (41 miles) and [Cumberland, Maryland] engineering feats of its day. The Sideling Hill road cut is a 340-foot (100 m) deep road cut where Interstate 68 cuts through Sideling Hill. It is notable as an [Potomac River] Potomac River, South Branch Potomac River, Town Creek, Little Cacapon River, Sideling Hill Creek, Cacapon River, Sir Johns Run, Warm Spring Run, Tonoloway Creek
 
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