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KandAC lock 26 |
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Devizes, Wiltshire KAC55.61 |
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KandAC mile 55
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Lock 26; wood gates at the bottom, steel gates at the top - quite a
common arrangement on this part of the canal.
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The lock is 55 miles 61 chains from Reading.
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fall |
8ft2ins |
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depth of water, full |
6ft6ins |
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depth of water, empty |
7ft0ns |
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length |
73ft11ins |
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width |
14ft3ins |
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Bottom gates and tail bridge, lock 26.
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Strain gauge, or whatever they're called, on a crack in the brickwork
at the bottom of lock 26.
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Upper Foxhangers Cottage by lock 26.
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The Kennet and Avon Canal Company gasworks was situated west of the
cottage at this lock.
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The lock has a tail bridge just below the bottom gates.
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headroom |
8ft11ins |
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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