Old Pictures: Kennet & Avon Canal

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 in Canal, Old Photographs, Transport |

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Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire

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Click on the thumbnail pictures for a larger view The Upper Wharf of the canal in Bradford’s Frome Road in about 1925, with a wooden horse-drawn barge being prepared for work. Just above the tiny cabin of the barge can be seen the small building which...

The Kennet & Avon Canal: timeline

Posted on Mar 31, 2012 in Canal |

1723: The River Kennet Navigation opened, Newbury to Reading

1727: The River Avon Navigation opened, Bath to Bristol

1788: In April, a canal linking the Kennet and Avon proposed at a meeting in Newbury

1789: Surveyed route presented to shareholders in the summer

1793: The Kennet & Avon Canal Act passed on 27th August

1794: The first sod cut, at Bradford,...

Explore the Kennet & Avon Canal

Posted on Mar 31, 2012 in Canal |

Bradford on Avon & Holt & Westwood & Winsley, Wiltshire .

The River Avon was canalised between Bath and Bristol in 1727, while to the east, the River Kennet Navigation from Newbury to the confluence with the River Thames at Reading had been made in 1723. The construction of a canal between the...