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Barratt's Lock |
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Melksham Without, Wiltshire KAC60.22 |
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KandAC mile 60
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Barratt's Lock, bottom end.
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The lock is 60 miles 22 chains from Reading.
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fall |
7ft10ins |
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depth of water, full |
5ft2ins |
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depth of water, empty |
5ft3ins |
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length |
75ft10ins |
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width |
14ft1ins |
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Barratt's Lock, from the eastward.
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Top gates; notice the rubbing plates, and the instruction:-
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This Lock can / be left Full
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Bywash, with fence.
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Quite a number of locks on the Kennet and Avon have hade a bywash
added in the last year or so. This is a radical change to the
hydraulic engineering of the canal, and is presumably needed to cope
with the new pumps moving water from below to above flights of locks.
The design is nice, neat brickwork. The fence? I don't see a fence
round the lock chamber. As one commentator said THEY'll be putting
fences all along the towpath next.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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