Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and AvonCanal is locating in southern England. The locks on the Kennet and AvonCanal were built to take barges with maximum dimensions of 73 feet long by 13 feet 10 inches wide. The Kennet and AvonCanal opened in 1810, and after restoration was re-opened by HM The Queen in 1990. Restoration work by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, British Waterways and local authorities that began in 1975 resulted in the canal being reopened in 1990.
The Kennet and AvonCanal is a broad canal and boating river navigation that runs from Reading to Hanham Lock, near Bristol. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the counties of Berkshire, Wiltshire and North Somerset. When the Kennet and Avon canal originally opened, it provided for the first time easy transport between London and Bristol, in effect joining the North Sea and the Bristol Channel at a time when the alternatives were horse drawn vehicles on poor roads or a long sea voyage. Barges could at long last travel the entire length of The Kennet and AvonCanal from the Severn to the Thames estuaries.
The Kennet and Avon canal, which passes through Avoncliff is one of the most splendid lengths of artificial waterway in Britain and is a fitting memorial to the canal age as a whole.
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