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Horton Chain Bridge |
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Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire KAC49.64 |
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KandAC mile 49
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Horton Chain Bridge from the east side, the usual neat english bond
brickwork.
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Horton Chain Bridge carries the road down the Pewsey Vale, from
Devizes to Pewsey, over the canal.
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The bridge is brick built; 49 miles 64 chains from Reading.
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headroom |
11ft0ins |
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depth of water |
6ft2ins |
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Abstraction of curves and shadows and reflected curves
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Deadnettles, Lamium sp, in the brickwork.
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View on the road over the bridge, looking toward Townsend Farm.
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There ?were stop gates built into this bridge, headed towards the
summit. These were like lock gates, arranged to swing shut
automatically by the flow of water which would happen if the canal
broke its bank.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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