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Kennet Navigation from Reading to Newbury
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Contents
- Junction with River Thames
- Blakes Lock
- High Bridge: *Brewery Gut: County Lock
- County Lock: Berkely Avenue Bridge No.7: Elgar Road
- River Kennet: A33 bridge No 9.:
- Fobney Lock
- River Kennet weir: Railway bridge: Southcote Lock:
- Online moorings
- Burghfield Island Boat Club: Burghfield Bridge No.14
- Burghfield Lock No.103
- Weir on River Kennet
- Hissey's Bridge No.17
- M4 Motorway bridge: Illegal use of towpath: Garston Lock No.102
- Sheffield Lock No.101: Theale (formerly Shenfield) Swing Bridge:
- Sulhampstead Lock No.100: Sulhampstead Swing Bridge: Weir warning:
- Tyle Mill Lock No.99: Tyle Mill Swing Bridge:
- Ufton Lock No.98 and Swing Bridge: Towney Lock No.97 and Bridge:
- Towney Lock No.97: Padworth Swing Bridge: Padworth Lock No.96: Aldermaston Wharf: Aldermaston Lock No.95: Aldermaston Lift Bridge:
- Kennet Navigation:
- Fronds (or Froud's) Lane Bridge No.28:
- Wickham Knights Bridge
- Woolhampton Lock No.94 and Bridge: Navigation hints:
- Flora: Oxleaze Swing Bridge: Heale's Lock No.93
- Cranwell's Swing Bridge:Midgham Bridge & Midgham Lock No.92
- Colthrop: Colthrop Bridge No.39: Gravel workings:
- Colthrop Swing Bridge No.39: Lock No.91: and Mill:
- Thatcham Swing Bridge (now fixed): Monkey Marsh Lock No.90: Monkey Marsh Swing Bridge:
- Lock cut on the Kennet Navigation
- Widmead Lock No.89:
- Railway bridge: Bull's Lock No.88: Bull's Swing Bridge No.27:
- Ham Bridge No.28:
- Ham Mills Lock No.87: Newbury Marina
- Greenham Lock No.86: Victoria Park Bridge: Park Road Bridge: Stone Building Newbury Wharf:
- Newbury
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Sheffield (or Shenfield) Lock, Kennet and Avon Canal.
by Mr Ignavy
2008
Built in about 1720 and enlarged later in the 18th century. The scalloped brick walls of the lock chamber can be clearly seen in this picture.
by Simon Mortimer
2005 None of the locks on the Kennet & Avon are mechanised at present (2012), the armstrong method being preferred, by British Waterways anyway, though all the swing bridges have had the grunt taken out of them. MEP
One of the many locks along the Kennet and Avon Canal. Some are motorised; this is operated by the armstrong method!
by Brendan and Ruth McCartney
An excellent illustration of the correct technique for entering a wide lock in a narrowboat with only one gate open. The steerer is keeping well clear of the closed gate to avoid rubbing it. Repeated rubbing of the gate post causes leakage which requires costly repair.
MEP
STEERERS PLEASE NOTE - if you have a bigger crew it is better to have them open both gates.
MEP
STEERERS PLEASE NOTE - if you have a bigger crew it is better to have them open both gates.
2007
I don't think these houses are contemporary with the canal (1723) but seem to have been squeezed between the canal and the river.
by Graham Horn
1976
Dr.Clifton's illustration of Shenfield Swing Bridge as it was called in 1976. Hand operated, it was a beast as I well remember. Very grateful for electrification when it came about. If you were lucky one or two of the waiting drivers would help you close it.
by MEP
by MEP
2010
This guy was standing at the controls to the bridge waiting to open it to take his narrow boat through. SU6470 : Open Bridge
by Bill Nicholls
2010
Theale Swing Bridge, as it is now called. Note the operator standing by the control box to the left. No more huffing and puffing, just press a little button and let the electric do the work. The most onerous part of the job is waiting for the boat to go through and remembering to take the BW key with you when go.
The huge queues of motorists waiting for you to finish? That's the best part :-)
by MEP
The huge queues of motorists waiting for you to finish? That's the best part :-)
by MEP
2010
The narrow boat on its way through the swing bridge, the guy at the controls was another narrow boat owner who came along to help shut the bridge and to save time for the person who is steering the narrow boat in the picture.
by Bill Nicholls
2010
Well this is how you open the swing bridge but you will need a key to operate the console with.
by Bill Nicholls
2008
In the background is Bridge House, constructed in 1860 and formerly The Bridge Inn, serving the travellers on the Kennet and Avon canal. The River Kennet runs parallel to the canal on the far side of the house.
by Simon Mortimer
2007
There are many swing bridges along this section of the canal, due to the low lying land. This one was mechanised in the 1980s.
by Graham Horn
2008
The swing bridge carries the Theale to Burghfield road over the Kennet and Avon Canal.
by Simon Mortimer
1976 - At the time of this photo the bridge was hand operated. MEP
Sometimes also referred to as Theale Swing Bridge.
by Dr Neil Clifton
2010
After negotiating the swing bridge the narrowboat is through and heading for the bank to pick up the person operating the swing bridge they left behind. SU6470 : Going through the bridge
by Bill Nicholls
2011
This bridge, which used to be manually operated when I first went through it in the early 1970's, takes Hanger Road across the canal. Apart from that waterway there are so many lakes around here, all ex-gravel workings, that there is more H20 than terra firma. Why? Because this area was the site of the old Theale Airfield, hence Hanger Rd, and after the war it all got dug up!
by Stuart Logan
2009
Looking south-west along one of the Kennet and Avon Canal. This wooded section is now home to a number of residential narrowboats. I am not sure if they are here officially, but a community of them is now well established.
by Graham Horn
2001
Although known as the Kennet & Avon Canal this was originally the Kennet Navigation, opened in 1723 between Reading and Newbury. The surveyor and engineer was John Hore who received a salary of £60 per annum.
by Maurice Pullin
2010
The narrowboat which has been following me seen here passing the millrace that feeds Threale mill.
by Bill Nicholls
2010
The two narrowboats pass each other near the bend on the Kennet between the swing bridge at Theale and Sulhamstead Lock.
by Bill Nicholls
2010
A 360 excavator sits on a barge which has a chipper on board. The trees along the bank are being pollarded to make the waterway clear for traffic.
by Bill Nicholls
2011
The canal here marks the boundary between Theale and Sulhamstead with to the towpath in the latter.
by Andrew Smith
2010
Well actually it's one man and two women in a narrowboat heading to the next lock on the Kennet.
by Bill Nicholls
2010
The near one is most likely used for a kitchen and rest area as it has a self contained unit onboard.
by Bill Nicholls
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A few yards of the river is seen as it crosses a corner of the grid square. Text by MEP
Images used on this page, © Copyright Bill Nicholls, Mr Ignavy, Simon Mortimer, Graham Horn, Steve Daniels, Dr Neil Clifton, Brendan and Ruth McCartney, Stuart Logan, Maurice Pullin, Andrew Smith and Christine Johnstone;
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