Kennet and Avon Canal
MILE 43 Wilcot, Wiltshire : KAC43.00=KAC44.00
KandAC mile 43
KandAC mile 43 - OS 1inch map, early 19th century.
... when a canal does go through a village there's a pub ...
The Kennet and Avon Canal from mile 43 to 44 is part of the Fifteen Mile Pound which roughly follows a contour line on the side of Pewsey Vale. The towpath is on the north side.
View east from Wilcot Bridge, looking back into mile 43.
Wilcot Bridge, Wilcot
Wilcot is clustered round Wilcot Green south of the canal, numerous thatched cottages. There's a pub, the Golden Swan, at the far end of the green. Many of the cottages look alike; they are probably the houses built for inhabitants of East Stowell, thrown out when it was enclosed as part of Stowell Park, early 19th century.
A canal projected in the 1790s, the Bristol and Salisbury Canal, would have joined the Kennet and Avon Canal here - if it had been built. Lots of support in 1792; forgotten five years later.
The further part of Wilcot village, and the Church of the Holy Cross, south of the canal.
Wilcot Swing Bridge, Wilcot
Greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea, in the hedgerow by the canal.
KandAC culvert 43.30
View east from Bowden's Bridge.
Bowden's Bridge, Wilcot
A thatched cottage in the copse by Bowden's Bridge, a real hideaway with a canalside garden on the offside, the south side.
Wilcot Wide Water provides a winding point, a turning place for boats longer than 30ft, but beware the shallow water in reedy lake.
Wilcot Wide Water in the dusk. There are warning lines to fend off boats from the shoal water.
Boat Luce moored opposite Wilcot Wide Water; looking eastwards towards Wilcot.
Wilcot Wide Water, Wilcot
British Waterways Board, BWB, work boat moored near Lady's Bridge.
British Waterways Board, BWB, work boat moored near Lady's Bridge.
Lady's Bridge, Wilcot
Cocklebury Farm, west of Lady's Bridge on the south side.
KandAC mooring 43.75

Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000