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The main flight of 16 locks at Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal Caen Hill Locks, looking downwards from near the top of the flight Caen Hill Locks from 400 feet, looking west. Caen Hill Locks (/ ˈ k eɪ n ˈ h ɪ l / [1]) are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. Of the 107 ...
The flight of 16 locks at Caen Hill, Devizes, forming part of locks 22-50. 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 the River Kennet at Newbury to the River Avon at Bath, or to the entire navigation between the River Thames at Reading and the Floating Harbour at Bristol ...
Caen Hill Locks: Kennet and Avon Canal: grid reference: Flight of 29 locks, 16 of which form an impressively steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Fourteen Locks: Monmouthshire Canal: grid reference: Dramatic flight of narrow and very deep locks featuring a unique and complex series of interdependent pounds. Foxton Locks
Caen Hill Locks, at Devizes, provides an insight into the engineering needed to build and maintain the canal. The main flight of 16 locks, which take 5–6 hours to navigate in a boat, [88] is part of a longer series of 29 locks built in three groups: seven at Foxhangers, sixteen at Caen Hill, and six at the town end of the flight.
The Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire became derelict shortly after the list's publication, with the last boat passage before restoration occurring in 1948. [8] The Anderton Boat Lift only became inoperational for a sixteen-year period beginning in the 1980s, [ 9 ] and the Barton Swing Aqueduct , the Bingley Five Rise Locks , and the Burnley ...
The Caen Hill Flight lock flight, one of the longest continuous lock flights in the country. Barton Swing Aqueduct, the world's only swinging aqueduct, on the Bridgewater canal. The Anderton Boat Lift, the world's first commercially successful boat lift and until the opening of the Falkirk Wheel the only boat lift in the United Kingdom.
The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is an English registered charity [1] and waterway society, concerned with the protection and maintenance of the Kennet and Avon Canal throughout Wiltshire and Berkshire.
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