Linton Lock Hydro is a hydroelectric plant on the River Ouse in North Yorkshire, England, between the villages of Linton-on-Ouse and Nun Monkton.

The river at Linton-on-Ouse was canalised by John Smeaton as part of a number of acts that were intended to make the Ouse (and further upstream, the Swale) navigable as far as Bedale.

[2][3] The first hydroelectric scheme at the lock was instituted by the York Corporation in response to the high price of coal after the First World War.

[5] This scheme was abandoned in 1962[6] as the National Grid came into effect with power being sourced from larger generating stations fed mostly by coal.

[11] They, like the local communities next to the river, were not in objection of green power, but the building of the scheme would seriously hamper what the BCU described as "the second best place in the country to practise our sport.