IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Caen Hill Gardens, DEVIZES, SN10 1QQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Caen Hill Gardens, SN10 1QQ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (160 Images Found)
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Devizes - Caen Hill Lock
Narrowboats moored at the top of this flight of locks.
Built in 1810 this flight of 16 successive locks is one of the most impressive on the UK’s waterways and forms part of the Devizes flight of 29 locks. They are designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument – the same level of heritage protection given to Stonehenge.
Image: © Chris Talbot
Taken: 29 Dec 2011
0.03 miles
6
Welcome to Caen Hill Locks
This sign is alongside the towpath near lock No 44.
There are 29 locks raising the Kennet and Avon Canal 272 feet in a distance of two miles up Caen Hill near Devizes. Designed by engineer John Rennie, the sixteen locks (numbers 29 to 44) which form the steepest part are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 30 Jan 2018
0.05 miles
7
Going down
A narrowboat negotiates a lock towards the top-end of the Caen Hill flight.
Image: © Roger Gittins
Taken: 21 May 2009
0.05 miles
8
Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet & Avon Canal
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 2 May 2010
0.05 miles
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Caen Hill Locks [10]
Seen from above, this is number 44, Sir Hugh Stockwell Lock. One of the two top gates is open for maintenance purposes. The house in the background is Lock Cottage, now operating as a cafe.
There are 29 locks raising the Kennet and Avon Canal 272 feet in a distance of two miles up Caen Hill near Devizes. Designed by engineer John Rennie, the sixteen locks (numbers 29 to 44) which form the steepest part are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 30 Jan 2018
0.05 miles