The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km), made up of two lengths of navigable river linked...
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The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is an English registered charity and waterway society, concerned with the protection and maintenance of the Kennet and Avon...
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The Kennet and Avon Canal Museum is a museum in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, covering the history of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The museum is housed in...
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Caen Hill Locks (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. Of the 107 locks on the canal, those at Caen Hill are numbered 22 to 50, and they...
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the Kennet and Avon Canal) to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth near Bristol, the river is navigable and is known as the Avon Navigation. The Avon is the...
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The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. The name may refer to either the route of the original Kennet and Avon Canal Company, which linked...
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The Wilts & Berks Canal is a canal in the historic counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, linking the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington near Melksham...
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Timothy West and Prunella Scales. Both are keen narrowboaters and were involved in campaigning to revive the Kennet and Avon Canal. West and Scales both...
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as the Kennet Navigation, which – together with the Avon Navigation, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the Thames – links the cities of Bristol and London...
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Dorset and Somerset Canal was a proposed canal in southwestern England. The main line was intended to link Poole, Dorset with the Kennet and Avon Canal near...
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pound is on the Kennet and Avon Canal between Wootton Rivers Bottom Lock and Caen Hill top lock. The longest level on the Erie Canal in New York was the...
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tunnel at Combe Hay, then via Midford and Monkton Combe to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal. This link gave the Somerset coalfield...
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at the 2011 Census was included) in West Berkshire, England. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the settlement with Aldermaston Lock near the centre...
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Burghfield (section Kennet and Avon Canal)
Pingewood and south of the Kennet and Avon canal. One rectangular anti-tank pillbox forming part of a stop line along the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Burghfield...
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Alton, Wiltshire (section Canal)
adjacent villages of Alton Barnes and Alton Priors, and the nearby hamlet of Honeystreet on the Kennet and Avon Canal. It lies in the Vale of Pewsey about...
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Hungerford (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the town alongside the River Dun, a major tributary of the River Kennet. The confluence with the Kennet is to...
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Lock (water navigation) (redirect from Canal locks)
English canal system are Bath deep lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and Tuel Lane Lock on the Rochdale Canal, which both have a rise of nearly 20 feet (6...
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Blake's Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
changed, with John Rennie, the engineer of the Kennet and Avon Canal describing it as "a very bad and inconvenient staunch lock". The lock was converted...
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Towney Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Aldermaston Wharf and Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England. Towney Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the...
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Bath Locks (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
of the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Bath, England. Bath Bottom Lock, which is numbered as No 7 on the canal, is the meeting with the River Avon just south...
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Tyle Mill Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
situated near Tyle Mill and the village of Sulhamstead on the Kennet and Avon Canal, England. Tyle Mill Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision...
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Cadley Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England, built c. 1810. The lock has a rise/fall of 8 ft 0 in (2.43 m). The lock and bridge...
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Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset. The town's canal, historic...
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Hanham Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
miles (24 km) from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation...
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Crofton Pumping Station (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water. The steam-powered pumping station is preserved and operates on selected weekends. It...
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Saltford Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
miles (24 km) from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation...
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Ufton Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
Ufton Lock is a degated lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Padworth and Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England. Ufton Lock was built in c. 1834, making...
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Monkey Marsh Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
Marsh Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Thatcham, Berkshire, England. Monkey Marsh Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision...
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Transport portal Canals of the United Kingdom Camden Lock, Commercial Road Lock, Limehouse Basin Lock Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal Boat lift, Caisson...
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Newbury Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
on the Kennet and Avon Canal in the town centre of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. It has a rise/fall of 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m), and is situated...
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