IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Caen Hill, DEVIZES, SN10 5TF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Caen Hill, SN10 5TF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (50 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
2009 : A361 looking west near the bottom of Caen Hill
The name Caen Hill also applies to the flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal about 100 yards north of here. The name is probably connected to French prisoners taken in the Napoleonic Wars who "helped" to build the canal locks.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 11 Aug 2009
0.13 miles
3
2010 : Cattle in a field west of Devizes
Caen Hill Farm is close by, so is Marsh Farm.
A fairly flat area lying between the Salisbury Plain escarpment seen here to the south and the western edge of the Marlborough Downs around Devizes.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 26 Jun 2010
0.18 miles
4
Caen Hill Locks - Cinderella stirs.
Seen on a dull October day in 1980 during the first stage of restoration. The lock chambers have been cleared of debris, including the rotten remains of the old lock gates, last used in the 1940s. The side pounds have been cleared of most of the vegetation, as well as riding stables and a builder's storage yard that occupied some of the dry pounds. It was to be still another 10 years or so before the locks were restored to the working condition we see today in the other pictures for this (and the adjacent!) squares.
Image: © David Stowell
Taken: Unknown
0.22 miles
6
Caen Hill Locks
Kennet and Avon canal lower lock pond adjacent to the B3101.
Image: © Roger Gittins
Taken: 21 May 2009
0.23 miles
7
Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon canal at Devizes
Image: © Rob Purvis
Taken: 28 Jun 2008
0.23 miles
8
Moorings below the Caen Hill Flight
Above the flight of six Foxhangers locks.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 6 May 2015
0.23 miles
9
The hard work starts
Opening the bottom gate of lock 29, at the bottom of the Caen Hill flight of 16 closely spaced wide locks. for a boat to start the climb.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 6 May 2015
0.24 miles
10
Near the bottom of the Caen Hill Flight of locks
When the architect and engineer John Rennie recommended routing the Kennet & Avon Canal through Devizes on the way to Bath he had to overcome a major obstacle at Devizes where the high ground of the Vale of Pewsey drops 237 feet towards the Avon Valley within two and a half miles. The Caen Hill Flight was the result which forms part of the Devizes Flight of 29 locks and is one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways – see https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-history/history-features-and-articles/the-seven-wonders-of-the-waterways?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-sGZ1LrL4AIVjZXtCh2LTAsBEAAYASAAEgIv6PD_BwE
Caen Hill Flight was the last stretch of the Kennet & Avon Canal to be completed in 1810 and after almost being abandoned after 1955 has now been fully restored.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 13 Feb 2019
0.24 miles