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Bishops Cannings Swing Bridge |
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Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire KAC50.57 |
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KandAC mile 50
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Wooden swing bridge, Bishops Cannings swing bridge, bridge 133.
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The swing bridge is an accommodation bridge, 50 miles 57 chains from
Reading; it also carries a footpath across the canal.
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Weight restriction notice on Bishops Cannings swing bridge.
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Bishops Cannings swing bridge.
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Stank at Bishops Cannings swing bridge, a set of stop planks fitted in
a stop groove. This is what the puddled bed of a canal looks like;
puddle is clay, it's sticky.
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It is said that one way to set the clay puddle in the canal bed as a
continuous seal was to get a herd of cows to trample it.
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Stank at Bishops Cannings swing bridge.
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Bishops Cannings, to the north west, has the Crown Inn, with food.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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