Caine Locks in Winter

Glostopcat (e2 Member)

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6 Feb 2012 - 5:14 PM

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A most impressive sight, I travelled through these on a narrowboat holiday back in March last year

HuntedDragon

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6 Feb 2012 - 6:13 PM

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epic..

Rogerex

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6 Feb 2012 - 11:40 PM

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An interesting sight. It aroused my curiosity so I went looking for more information......
The following is abbreviated from Wikipedia:

"Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. Because a large volume of water is needed for the locks to operate, a back pump was installed at Foxhangers in 1996 capable of returning 32 million litres of water per day to the top of the flight, which is equivalent to one lockful every eleven minutes. The locks take 5–6 hours to travel in a boat."

Roger