Kennet and Avon Canal
MILE 45 Woodborough and Alton and Woodborough, Wiltshire KAC45.00=KAC46.00
KandAC mile 45
KandAC mile 45 - OS 1inch map, early 19th century.
... unexcited wandering through the fields ... this is a very quiet stretch of canal ...
The Kennet and Avon Canal from mile 45 to 46 is part of the Fifteen Mile Pound which roughly follows a contour line on the side of Pewsey Vale; this section passes through Honeystreet. The towpath is on the south side.
Parish boundary Alton- Woodborough: SU10416152
Parish boundary Woodborough- Alton: SU10826111
Ford Swing Bridge, Woodborough
To the north east of the canal is Woodborough Hill, 205m. There are strip lynchets on the hillside, remains of a celtic field system or medieval terracing? It is difficult to spot them from the canal - perhaps with the sun in another quarter?
The wood south west of the canal is called Ford Wood.
Approaching Alton Valley Bridge from the eastward.
Alton Valley Bridge, Alton
Albemarle Memorial, Alton
The iron post, old bridge rail, for milepost 45 II. Although these posts might be found every quarter mile, the wooden board and metal letters have usually gone.
Canal westwards of Alton Valley Bridge.
Steps and a tiny private landing stage on the offside, and a punt; a sunk punt.
KandAC winding point 45.47
Overflow sluice or flood valve, on the offside, set in the winding point and feeding into the brook that flows under a culvert a little to the west.
A street cover for a water main stop valve is a little unexpected in a canal towpath.
KandAC culvert 45.51
Somewhere east of honeystreet the canal crosses the line of a prehistoric trackway, a ridgeway when it is on the downs. To the north it becomes a designated long distance path. Honeystreet is said to be named after the trackway in the vale; it was a muddy road
Old Builders Wharf, Alton
Honeystreet Bridge, Woodborough
Alton Barnes White Horse, Alton
Boat travelling westwards just past Honeystreet Bridge, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Timber yard on the south side of the Kennet and Avon Canal, by Honeystreet Bridge; and a tank trap.
Honeystreet Wharf, Woodborough
Honeystreet grew up in the early 19th century round the industrial activity by the canal. It housed workmen at the timber mill on the south side of the canal and the boatyard on the north. Many of the houses were built for workers by Ebenezer Lane, boatbuilder and canal carrier; his initials, 'EL', appear on several houses.
Terrace of houses, stone with brick quoining, by the Kennet and Avon Canal at Honeystreet, with private moorings.
Stone built house by the Kennet and Avon Canal at Honeystreet.
Milepost 46, collapsed.

Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000