One of the longest
continuous lines of locks in the UK. Twenty-nine of them in a row rising 237
feet in two miles; a major success of Georgian engineering, which completed the
Kennet and Avon canal joining Bath to London.
At the time, it was cheaper
and quicker to move goods by canal than by road and the canals thrived until
the railways out-competed them.
They are now protected for
leisure (and for the many people who live in their boats on them) and for the wildlife
they harbour – a few examples of which were in residence on this cold January
visit when the canal was crazed with ice.
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