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Bradford Deep Lock |
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Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire KAC65.65 |
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KandAC mile 65
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Sluice gear pinion and pawl, ground paddle at the top end of the lock.
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The lock is 65 miles 65 chains from Reading.
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fall |
10ft3ins |
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depth of water, full |
4ft8ins |
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depth of water, empty |
4ft4ins |
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length |
75ft8ins |
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width |
14ft3ins |
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This used to be the deepest lock on the canal. Most locks are a 6, 7
or 8 feet rise. Combining two locks, numbers 8 and 9 at Bath, during
restoration in the 1970s, made a VERY deep lock, 18ft8ins rise
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Boat locking up at Bradford Deep Lock.
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Lock gate, top end, made in 2000. Notice the rubbing plate.
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Top gates, cill, rubbing plates; and the inevitable leak - rather a
lot for new gates?
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Locking up, water coming in from ground paddle tunnel.
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Key left on the sluice gear, ground paddle at top; not good practice.
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The latest lock gates are made in the Netherlands!
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Wijma Kampen B.V. / KAMPEN-HOLLAND
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Gate paddle, on lower gate.
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Recess in lock chamber wall, for the gate paddle and its lift.
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Mooring bollards for boats using the lock, top end; notice the wood
rubbing board.
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Wooden mooring bollard, top end of lock.
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The first sod of the building of western end of the Kennet and Avon
Canal was cut here, October 1794.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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