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Devizes, Wiltshire KAC53.60 |
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KandAC mile 53
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Trip boat Navigation Venture, tied up at Devizes Wharf.
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The Devizes Wharf area now includes the Canal Centre in an old bonded
warehouse, a slipway, the Wharf Theatre converted from another
warehouse, car parking, some nice little houses, ...
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Devizes Corporation originally had exclusive rights in the town wharf.
The wharfage was farmed out for a fixed annual sum to the Devizes
Wharf Co. The company collapsed 1840, as the canal declined, and from
then the corporation ran the wharf. The last trader was William
Dickenson, canal carrier and dealer in timber, coal, grain, etc.
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Wharf Theatre, converted from a warehouse.
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Warehouse crane on the Wharf Theatre building.
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Boats moored at Devizes Wharf.
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Boat, September Rayne, being smartened up because he was expecting
visitors.
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Boats, Moonfleet and another at the wharf.
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Slipway at Devizes Wharf, canoes being readied for an outing.
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Devizes was a market town serving the arable and sheep farming of the
Wiltshire downs. It has three medieval churches, a town hall built
1806, assize courts built 1823, corn exchange built 1857, elizabethan
inns, ...
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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