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Wilcot, Wiltshire KAC43.66 (+-) |
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KandAC mile 43
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Wilcot Wide Water from Lady's Bridge, ie from the westward.
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Part of the price of Lady Sussanah Wroughton, 1793, for having a canal
cut through her land was the landscaping of an area of the canal into
an ornamental lake.
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It's suggested that rennie, the canal engineer, might have been happy
to comply with this demand as it saved embankment work where the canal
passed through a boggy area. The water is overgrown; a wildlife
preserve noisy with coots, moorhens, etc. The fish here are said to be
the largest on the canal.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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