Working down the locks
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Working down the locks
Image: © Christine Johnstone Taken: 4 Apr 2010
The Caen Hill flight on the Kennet and Avon canal. In the 1970s Nicholson's guide to the Waterways of the south west said "The scale of the whole flight is most impressive. All of it is of course unusable; the gates are missing, the intervening pounds silted or overgrown. One or two have even been turned into pastures, horses now grazing where the water to fill the locks was stored. The task of restoration is enormous, but work is slowly getting under way. Pounds are being cleared, but the major task of lock restoration still lies ahead."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.352304
Longitude
-2.021347