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	River Kennet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kennet is a river in the south east of England, and a tributary of the River Thames.
		The lower reaches of the river are navigable to river craft and are known as the Kennet Navigation, which, together with the Avon Navigation, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the Thames, links the cities of Bristol and London.
		The Kennet's principal tributaries are the River Lambourn, the River Enborne and the Foudry Brook.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Kennet (437 words)

	Kennet and Avon Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England.
		The canal is 57 miles (92 km) long, but together with the Avon Navigation and Kennet Navigation it totals 87 miles (140 km).
		By the 1950s large portions of the canal were closed because of poor lock maintenance, and in 1956 the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust successfully petitioned against its legal closure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kennet_and_Avon_Canal (436 words)

	The Avon and Kennet Valley barge trips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Operating from Newbury Wharf on the Kennet and Avon Canal, she is 70 ft in length and 11ft 6 inches wide.
		She operates from Kintbury on the Kennet and Avon Canal and is 67ft in length and 10ft wide.
		Kennet Valley is licensed to carry 75 passengers but we restrict this to 70 to increase the comfort for our passengers.
	www.kennet-horse-boat.co.uk /about/boats.shtml (241 words)

	The Wide Way West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Kennet & Avon Canal starts near High Bridge, Reading, and is connected to the River Thames by a short stretch of the River Kennet that is controlled by the Environment Agency.
		The canal should perhaps be called the Kennet & Avon Navigation because only the central section is actually a canal, the ends of the navigation being composed of the River Kennet and the Bristol Avon, which were made navigable before the canal section was built.
		The nine miles between Newbury and Hungerford continue to be more like a river navigation than a canal, with the river flowing in and out of the canal at various places and some sections where the Kennet and canal share the channel.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/The-Wide-Way-West.html (2173 words)

	Museum Devizes - The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, England — Working to ...
		Historically, the Kennet and Avon Canal comprises three waterways, the Avon Navigation from Bristol to Bath (opened in 1727), the man-made canal section from Bath to Newbury (opened in 1810), and the Kennet Navigation from Newbury to Reading (opened in 1723).
		The river Avon had been navigable from Bristol to Bath during the early years of the 13th century but construction of mills on the river forced its closure.
		In the late 1780's canal mania swept Britain, and on 16th April 1788 a meeting of interested parties at the town of Hungerford, under the chairmanship of Charles Dundas the MP for Berkshire, concluded that a junction between the Kennet and Avon rivers would be of material benefit.
	www.katrust.org /museum_heritage_planning_001.htm (310 words)

	Jane Austen Centre Magazine
		On the present day navigation we travel 19 miles to the end of the old Kennet Navigation at Newbury, this takes us through 22 locks, including two of the original turf side locks.
		The Kennet and Avon canal must have caused huge interest in the village, especially on the 12th June 1797 when the section between there and Newbury was opened.
		The Kennet & Avon Canal Act was passed when Jane Austen was eighteen and the route was fully opened when she was thirty-five, both were products of their age and remain valued parts of our heritage.
	www.janeausten.co.uk /magazine/index.ihtml?pid=93&step=4 (1390 words)

	Kennet & Avon Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The canal was to be 49 miles long from the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Bradford and Bath, to Sturminster Newton, on the River Stour.
		The Kennet and Avon was virtually the first canal to have its own local branch of the Inland Waterways Association and they refused to allow the canal to die.
		The Kennet and Avon was certified as useless - that is -a class 3 waterway, "insufficient commercial prospects to justify its retention".
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/kennetavonroot.htm (2912 words)

	The Kennet Navigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Blakes Lock, which was part of the Thames Navigation although it was on the Kennet, was not converted into a pound lock until 1802.
		Although the people of Newbury and along the Kennet Valley liked the idea of the Kennet Navigation, the people of Reading were against the idea.
		Even when the Kennet Navigation was completed in 1723, boatmen taking their cargoes through Reading to Newbury were threatened, sometimes with death, by some of the people of Reading.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /radstock/rht/themes/transport/kennet2.html (280 words)

	All Change for the K&A
		On the other hand if your progress on the Kennet is much the same as on the Thames you will probably find the going easy and may wonder why you have been warned about the torrents at County Lock and the maelstrom at Woolhampton.
		The first half mile of the Kennet is not part of the Kennet & Avon Canal and is administered by the Environment Agency.
		When the water is flowing fast this can be another tricky place to navigate, however it is best to keep the scale of the difficulties in proportion and remember that the canal is used week after week by hire boats many with novice crews.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/All-Change-for-the-KA.html (3157 words)

	Newbury Branch - Local History - The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, ...
		To work the new Kennet Navigation, a scaled-down version of the Western barges working the Thames was developed and this became known as the Newbury Size Barge carrying 128 tons.
		This new Navigation allowed for the expansion of trade between London and Newbury and also allowed for easier collection and distribution of goods throughout the south.
		Proposals were first made in 1788 to extend the Navigation by means of an artificial cut from Newbury to Bath and hence meet up with the River Avon Navigation.
	www.katrust.org /newbury/local_history.html (547 words)

	Southampton Canal Society - River Avon (Hampshire)
		Attempts were made on a number of occasions to establish a navigation southwards from the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire to the sea near Christchurch.
		Very little remains of the navigation and much of the river is inaccessible to the public.
		Beside the road bridge south of the village of Britford (OS ref 160278) is the remains of one of the navigation's three locks.
	www.whitenap.plus.com /local/avon.htm (925 words)

	Places of Interest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A project was conceived to connect the Kennet and Avon Navigations.
		In 1990, the canal was reopened, by the Queen.
		Today the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is the prime custodian of the canal, which has enojiyed a renaissance in the holiday and leisure industries.
	www.clicknewbury.com /location/kennet.html (285 words)

	Kennet & Avon Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		John Rennie's original canal simply connected the River Kennet to the Avon though today the navigable sections of both rivers and Rennie's Canal are all considered to be one route under the name of the Kennet and Avon Canal, stretching 93 miles from Reading to Bristol.
		This is the section which was originally known as the River Kennet Navigation and had been used for many years before the canal was built.
		In the early days of the navigation boaters on the Kennet were often threatened by those who's livelihood depended on the success of the River Thames.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/kennetavonroute.htm (4877 words)

	Kingsclere - Heritage & Genealogy
		Secondly, the availability of coal shipped from Newcastle via London and the Kennet Navigation meant that it was possible to develop a malting industry in Kingsclere and the village soon became a supplier of prime malt to the London Brewing Industry.
		This would have left the Kennet and Avon Canal at Speen and the original intention was to follow broadly the line of the A34 to Whitchurch and a link to the proposed Basingstoke Canal extension.
		The chief benefit of the completion of the Kennet and Avon Canal was to bring coal from the Somerset coalfield direct to the area using the Somerset Coal Canal which linked directly into the Kennet and Avon.
	www.kingsclere.org.uk /canalrly.html (2516 words)

	Kennet Cruises narrow boat canal hire
		Care and respect need to be given to the potential power of flowing water if the safety of the boat and its passengers are to be maintained.
		The approach to the bridge is on a sharp right-hand curve.
		The pillar and navigation arch are obscured until the last minute.
	www.kennetcruises.co.uk /navigation.html (1453 words)

	Environment Agency - Theale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kennet & Avon canal is parallel; suggestion that may carry significant flow during large events, leading to discharge underestimation of 10-20% by Theale gauge.
		Daily mean flow series 04-24/12/98 estimated by NRFA (using 39103, Kennet @ Newbury) as levels missing due to gauging hut refurbishment.
		Minor contribution to the Kennet & Avon canal.
	www.environment-agency.gov.uk /hiflowsuk/stations/39016 (204 words)

	The International Canal Monuments List - Part IIa - Individual Structures
		Fundamental to the ability of any navigation to rise or fall was the use of lock-gates to hold one stretch of water at a higher level than an adjoining section.
		A navigable canal aqueduct was built on the Martesana Canal from the river Adda to Milan between 1462 and 1470.
		The construction of this landmark, the highest navigable canal aqueduct built, led to the formation and consolidation of a team important to the subsequent development of civil engineering on such large projects as the Caledonian Canal.
	www.icomos.org /studies/canals2a.htm (11563 words)

	Index
		When this photo was taken she was on the last couple of days of a three week journey from Oxford to Lechlade that included some of the navigable tributaries including the Kennet navigation to its then head at Padworth, and the River Wey.
		The only tunnel to be situated on a river navigation, after closure it was blocked by the railway company whose tracks crossed it, the north end is now rather more full with water than its builders intended.
		The beech trees having been removed, the portal partially taken down and rebuilt during one of the hottest summers on record, and water in the tunnel had fallen to dismal levels when this picture was taken by Mark Edwards.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /leopold/mark/scrapbook.html (1646 words)

	The Kennet and Avon Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Kennet and Avon took over the Kennet Navigation.
		Many products were brought to Reading by the canal, for instance coal was brought to the gas works and slate for the roofs of houses.
		With the opening of the Great Western Railway, faster and not effected by the weather, through traffic on the canal became rare.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /radstock/rht/themes/transport/kennet3.html (341 words)

	Kennet & Avon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Kennet and Avon connects the Thames (at its Reading confluence with the River Kennet) with the Bath and Bristol Avon - thus connecting London and the North Sea with the Severn Estuary and the Atlantic.
		A Kennet Navigation connecting Reading to Newbury opened in 1723 and an Avon Navigation from Bristol to Bath opened four years later.
		Nonetheless, the canal struggled on for a century, until, finally, the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive announced that the Kennet and Avon Canal was closed until further notice - on 31st of May 1950.
	www.strum.co.uk /wessex/devizs1a.htm (379 words)

	Wiltshire County Council \| Wigglybus
		Operating in Calne, Kennet Valley, Mere, and the Vale of Pewsey, the service provides door to door transport for anyone living, working and visiting these areas.
		01249 460600 for Calne, Kennet Valley and the Vale of Pewsey
		Bookings for Calne, Kennet Valley and the Vale of Pewsey can be made as little as 20 minutes before the bus is scheduled to leave its starting point and bookings on the Mere and District Wigglybus should be made at least 40 minutes before the service is scheduled to start.
	www.wiltshire.gov.uk /transport/html/wigglybus.html (227 words)

	UK and russian inland waterways
		The Kennet and Avon Canal was constructed between 1723 and 1810 across the south of England to connect London and the River Thames to Bristol.
		Beyond the upper limit of modern commercial navigation lies a significant network of rivers and lakes which are navigable by leisure craft but hardly used for this purpose.
		Canal systems were built in the 18th and 19th centuries at Vishniy Volochek to link the Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod Regions via the Volga, the Tvertsa, and the Msta rivers to Lake Ilmen at Novgorod and then via the Volkhov to Lake Ladoga and the Neva to St Petersburg.
	www.pcintell.co.uk /waterways.html (397 words)

	Basingstoke Canal - Canals that never were - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This scheme was opposed by the Thames Commissioners and the owner of the Kennet Navigation both of which were likely to lose trade if this link to Old Basing were built.
		The Kennet and Avon Company purchased the Kennet Navigation in 1815.
		In 1824 Francis Giles surveyed a line and produced a plan for a "Kennet and Basingstoke Canal from the River Kennet Navigation at Medyham to the Basingstoke Canal at Basing".
	www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk /arcn13.htm (755 words)

	Motor barge and the sedate drifting of the horse drawn barge
		In today's hectic environment there is little time to appreciate the beauty of the countryside and the slower pace of yesteryear.
		Choose between the slow meandering of the motor barge and the sedate drifting of the horse drawn barge.
		Set in the beautiful surroundings of Berkshire's countryside on the Kennet and Avon canal you can step aboard, sit back and watch the world go by.
	www.kennet-horse-boat.co.uk (184 words)

	Visit Wiltshire - accommodation, camping, places to stay, sight seeing wiltshire
		Covering an area of almost 3,500 sq km it unites the districts of Kennet, West Wilts, North Wilts, Salisbury and South Wilts with the Borough of Swindon.
		Wiltshire also offers the gentle pastime of canal boating along the famous Kennet and Avon Canal, and the canal towpath is excellent for both walking and cycling, with many friendly pubs along the way offering a well-earned rest.
		The Kennet and Avon Canal is historically three different navigations; The River Avon Navigation completed in 1727, The River Kennet Navigation completed in 1723 and the linking navigation completed in 1810.
	www.visitwiltshire.co.uk /search.asp?providerid=RHWABSAKOK (902 words)

	Ka2
		It all started in the spring of 1788 with meetings at which the businessmen of Hungerford and Marlborough met to consider the extension of the river Kennet navigation westwards from Newbury.
		John Rennie was appointed as the engineer to the canal and the construction of the Kennet and Avon canal began at Bradford on Avon and at Newbury in October 1794.
		In the early 19th century, the cost of transporting goods by road was so expensive that they were being transported on the Kennet and Avon Canal even before it was completed.
	www.ipresent.co.uk /Ka2.html (731 words)

	Kennet and Avon Canal Museum
		They agreed that a junction of the rivers Kennet and Avon would be of 'material benefit'.
		It descended on the Somerset Coal Canal to the Kennet and Avon Canal, joining at the western end of the Dundas Aqueduct.
		In response, many wharves were built, ranging from the important gauging stations, where the weight of cargo being carried was gauged and a toll calculated, to small wharves which might serve just one mill.
	www.ipresent.co.uk /KA2.HTM (741 words)

	Hotelboat Tranquil Rose canal cruising and river cruise routes
		We pass Lechlade and turn the boat at Inglesham, the limit of navigation of the River Thames, before heading back downstream to Oxford, with its elegant spires and colleges.
		This is a gentle cruise along some of the finer parts of the Kennet and Avon canal.
		There are a number of unusual locks and bridges on this section: the turf sided lock at Old Monkey Marsh, the huge lift bridge at Aldermaston and the crazy swing bridge at Woolhampton.
	www.tranquilrose.co.uk /routes.htm (3150 words)

	Environment Agency - The River Kennet Catchment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The River Kennet from Berwick Bassett to Reading, the Foudry Brook, the River Lambourn, the River Enborne and their tributaries
		River Kennet and its tributaries from Berwick Bassett to Newbury
		River Kennet, Foudry Brook and their tributaries from Newbury to Reading
	www.environment-agency.gov.uk /subjects/flood/floodwarning/061WAFW10 (220 words)

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