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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Claverton Pumping Station (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
    the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal using power from the flow of the river. It is a Grade I listed...
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    Hungerford (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
    and 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the town alongside the River Dun, a major tributary of the River Kennet...
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    the Kennet and Avon Canal. The use of this canal declined as the railways grew but it was restored to full working order during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s...
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    and Liverpool Canal near Leigh (Poolstock Bottom Lock No 2), a distance of 39.5 miles (63.6 km). Another long pound is on the Kennet and Avon Canal between...
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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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    Dundas Aqueduct (category Kennet and Avon Canal)
    aqueduct in England which carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon (the Somerset / Wiltshire border) and the Wessex Main Line railway. The aqueduct...
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    Fobney Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
    Canal Companion. Rugby: Central Waterways Supplies. ISBN 0-907864-97-X. United Kingdom portal Transport portal Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal v t e...
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    the Bristol Avon forms the southwestern boundary, and parts of the southern boundary are the Semington Brook and the Kennet and Avon Canal. The Local Government...
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    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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  • 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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    Southcote Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
    Allsop, Niall (1987). The Kennet and Avon Canal. Bath: Millstream Books. ISBN 0-948975-15-6. The European Magazine, and London Review. Vol. 79–80. Philological...
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    based in Salisbury, of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry. Around 1800, the Kennet and Avon Canal was built through Wiltshire, providing a route for transporting...
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    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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    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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    Channel. Berks & Hants Canal, a proposed link from the terminus of the Basingstoke Canal at Basingstoke to the Kennet and Avon Canal, rejected twice by Parliament...
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