Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Devizes
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient.
(Wikipedia)
South-England: The Kennet and Avon Canal and the Caen Hill Locks in Devizes
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, including the earlier improved river navigations of the River Kennet between Reading and Newbury and the River Avon between Bath and Bristol.
Today the canal is a tourism destination. Boating, with both narrowboats and cruisers, is popular, particularly in the summer months.
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Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Devizes
A short walk along the Kennet and Avon Canal
Devizes Caen Hill Locks 2018 England
On a recent sunny weekend we decided to visit the Caen Hill locks on the Kennet and Avon canal. The set of locks are an incredible feat of engineering. First opened in 1810 they were built to carry the canal 237 feet up Caen Hill. There are 29 locks in total, over 2 miles, although the picture you see most often is of the 16 locks stretching up the hill. The canal became derelict after the Second World War but was restored and officially reopened in 1990. Many of the locks are dedicated to those who helped with the restoration.
Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal
This is a short film I made at the 29 locks at Caen Hill, Devizes, Wiltshire.
It was shot on full manual mode on a Canon 550D on 14/1/12
Caen Hill Locks, Devizes, Wiltshire UK
These are the Caen Hill Locks near Devizes in Wiltshire. There are 29 individual locks to negotiate in order to progress along the Kennet and Avon canal in either direction. The rise is 237 feet in 2 miles (72m in 3.2 kms) which is a1 in 44 gradient.
Filmed in 1080p HD using a Yuneec Typhoon Q500+ quad-copter.
Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient.
(Wikipedia)
Caen Hill Locks Kennet & Avon Canal
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over ¾ of a mile (1.2 km). The next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside and are designated as a scheduled monument. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, fifteen of them have unusually large sideways-extended pounds, to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes. The locks take 5–6 hours to traverse in a boat.
The side pounds, the areas around them and adjoining fields to the north, are managed as nature habitat by the Canal & River Trust. Over 30,000 trees were planted in 2012/13 to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee.
This flight of locks was engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the steep hill, and was the last part of the 87-mile route of the canal to be completed. Whilst the locks were under construction a tramroad provided a link between the canal at Foxhangers to Devizes, the remains of which can be seen in the towpath arches in the road bridges over the canal. A brickyard was dug to the south of the workings to manufacture the bricks for the lock chambers and this remained in commercial use until the middle of the 20th century.
In the early 19th century, 1829–43, the flight was lit by gas lights.
After the coming of the railways, the canal fell into disuse and was closed. The last cargo through the flight was a consignment of grain conveyed from Avonmouth to Newbury in October 1948. From the 1960s there was a major clearing and rebuilding operation, culminating in a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 to open the new locks officially,[9] although the flight had been navigable for a number of years before then.
Because a large volume of water is needed for the locks to operate, a back pump was installed at Foxhangers in 1996 capable of returning 7 million gallons of water per day to the top of the flight, which is equivalent to one lockful every eleven minutes.
In 2010 British Waterways planned to install sixteen new locks gates in twelve weeks as part of its winter maintenance programme, in an attempt to reduce the amount of water lost. The exceptionally cold weather delayed work, and when the section was re-opened at Easter 2010 only twelve pairs of gates had been dealt with. The wood from the old gates was donated to Glastonbury Festival and used to build a new bridge which was named in honour of Arabella Churchill, one of the festival's founders.
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Caen Hill Locks Kennet and Avon Canal Wiltshire.
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over 1.2 km. The next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, 15 locks have unusually large sideways-extended pounds, to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes. This flight of locks was engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the very steep hill, and was the last part of the 87 mile route of the canal to be completed. Whilst the locks were under construction a tramroad provided a link between the canal at Foxhangers to Devizes, the remains of which can be seen in the towpath arches in the road bridges over the canal. A brickyard was dug to the south of the workings to manufacture the bricks for the lock chambers and this remained in commercial use until the middle of the 20th century.
We finally tackle CAEN HILL FLIGHT on Devizes Canal! Basically LOTS of locks!
A year ago we didn't plan on moving this far this soon in our widebeam canalboat because our cruising pattern didn't require us to. As liveaboards, the terms set out by the Canal & River Trust require you to move 20miles in 1 direction each year, staying a maximum of 14days at each mooring, a minimum of 1km apart...make sense? Took us a while to get our heads around too haha!
Because of the girls school we didn't need to move much further past Hilperton (Trowbridge) but as we took them out of school in April then we no longer had the ties so why wouldn't we tackle the historical Caen Hill Flight in our Sailaway?
Check out how we got on. Typically it wasn't without it's 'moments', or hours should i say!!!
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Caen Hill Locks Kennet Avon Rivers Devizes England April 2017 IMG 1930
Crazy Ride Down Caen Hill Lock Flight Devizes
The Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire built by John Rennie in 1810. They have a rise of 1 in 44 over 2 miles (3.2 km) and are arranged in three groups. These comprise - seven locks; sixteen locks (a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside, which are a scheduled ancient monument); and six locks. 15 locks have unusually large side pounds to store the water needed to operate them.
The bike ride was undertaken by me in 2011, non-stop down the main flight, 20 locks in all.
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The Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England built by John Rennie in 1810. They have a rise of 1 in 44 over 2 miles (3.2 km) and are arranged in three groups of seven locks, sixteen locks (which form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside) and six locks. 15 locks have unusually large side pounds to store the water needed to operate them.
Caen Hill Locks Kennet Avon Rivers Devizes England April 2017 IMG 1931
Caen Hill Locks Kennet Avon Rivers Devizes England April 2017 IMG 1908
Caen Hill Lock flight, Devizes Wiltshire
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Caen Hill Locks, Kennet and Avon Canal, Devizes ,Wiltshire.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups: the lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over ¾ of a mile; the next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside and are designated as a scheduled monument.
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Caen Hill Locks time lapse
Compressed trip down Caen Hill Locks in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, on the Foxhangers barge “Cunning Fox”. Almost all the 29 locks are shown here (unfortunately our camera ran out of power 3 locks from the end).