Caen Hill Locks (/ˈkeɪn ˈhɪl/) are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. The 29 locks have...
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what is now Caen Hill Locks, transported up the hill by a horse-drawn tramway, and reloaded into barges at the top. When the flight of locks opened in 1810...
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ornate Bath Locks lead to a stretch through Limpley Stoke valley with few locks. The flight of locks at Devizes, including the Caen Hill Locks, raises the...
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Rise Locks in West Yorkshire Bingley Three Rise Locks in West Yorkshire Foxton Inclined Plane Trust Watford Locks in Northamptonshire Caen Hill Locks near...
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This list is not comprehensive. Bingley Five Rise Bow Locks Watford Locks Caen Hill flight United Kingdom portal Transport portal Canals of the United...
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a donation from British Waterways of timber from the old gates at Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire. This was used to construct a new bridge, dedicated to...
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Foxton Locks near Market Harborough, Leicestershire Watford Locks in Northamptonshire Caen Hill Locks near Devizes, Wiltshire Fourteen Locks near Newport...
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Path Barbury Castle Bentley Wood Bowood House Caen Hill Locks, Devizes Castle Combe village Castle Hill, Mere Central Government War Headquarters, Corsham...
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Lock (water navigation) (redirect from Canal locks)
possible to group locks purposely into flights by using cuttings or embankments to "postpone" the height change. Examples: Caen Hill locks, Devizes. "Flight"...
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Locks. Bingley Five Rise Locks in West Yorkshire Bingley Three Rise Locks in West Yorkshire Foxton Locks near Market Harborough, Leicestershire Caen Hill...
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Canal pound (category Locks (water navigation))
between locks so as to avoid excessive level fluctuations. An example of this is the Caen Hill locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal. Climbing the hill that...
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(1443438)". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. "Caen Hill Locks (1004694)". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. "Grovely...
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Canals of the United Kingdom (section Locks)
overcome, locks are built close together in a flight such as at Caen Hill Locks. Where the gradient is very steep, a set of staircase locks are sometimes...
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(1799). The Kennet and Avon Canal – including the Dundas Aqueduct, Caen Hill Locks and Crofton Pumping Station – occupied him between 1794 and 1810. In...
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Bingley Five Rise Locks – in West Yorkshire Bingley Three Rise Locks – in West Yorkshire Caen Hill Locks – near Devizes, Wiltshire Foxton Locks – near Market...
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a donation from British Waterways of timber from the old gates at Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire. This was used to construct a new bridge which was dedicated...
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overcome, locks are built close together in a flight such as at Caen Hill Locks. Where the gradient is very steep, a set of staircase locks are sometimes...
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"Caen Hill Locks | Canal & River Trust". canalrivertrust.org.uk. Canal & River Trust. Retrieved 29 October 2019. Historic England. "Caen Hill locks, Devizes...
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American Civil War battle in Arkansas Cane Hill Formation, a geologic formation in Arkansas Caen Hill Locks, a flight on the Kennet and Avon Canal This...
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Wayzgoose. ISBN 978-0954911676. "Kennet and Avon Canal, Devizes Wharf and Caen Hill Locks". Destination Devizes. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016...
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a donation from British Waterways of timber from the old gates at Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire. This was used to construct a new bridge over the Whitelake...
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Seend Locks (grid reference ST933613) are at Seend Cleeve, Wiltshire on the Kennet and Avon Canal, England. They have a combined rise/fall of 38 ft 4ins...
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Gongoozler (section Canal locks)
tourist attraction in Languedoc. In the UK, Foxton Locks (pictured above) in Leicestershire and the Caen Hill flight on the edge of Devizes, Wiltshire are popular...
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the West Saxon kingdom to the Marlborough Downs by a victory at Barbury Hill. At that period the district south of the River Avon and the River Nadder...
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Kennet and Avon Canal in 1806, working primarily as site agent on the Caen Hill Flight in Devizes, Wiltshire. While John Rennie designed the flight, it...
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Wootton Rivers Lock (category Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal)
rise/fall of 8 ft 0 in (2.43 m). The parish of Wootton Rivers has three more locks upstream: Heathy Close, Brimslade, and Wootton Top Lock. The lock and its...
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the Caen Hill flight of locks of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The canal rises 237 feet by means of 29 locks, 16 of them in a straight line at Caen Hill. The...
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(rivers, estuaries, and straits) and artificial (reservoirs, canals and locks) waterways. List of estuaries in England List of straits in the United States...
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locks, 16 of them in a straight line at Caen Hill. In the early days the canal was lit by gas lights at night, enabling boats to negotiate the locks at...
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to 15 cubic meters per second.: 646 The flight of 16 consecutive locks at Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Wiltshire The Llangollen Canal traverses...
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