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1. Kennet and Avon Canal Museum
The website of the Kennet and Avon Canal Museum introduces the history of the Kennet and Avon Canal, and gives details of the Museum which is based in Devizes.
[View More...]2. Planning the Kennet and Avon Canal
Planning the Kennet and Avon Canal tells the history of the canal, explaining the need for the canal, how the route was chosen, how the money was raised, and what landowners thought.
[View More...]3. Building the Kennet and Avon Canal
Find out more about the history of the canal, the engineers, the people who built it, the methods they used, the problems and solutions.
[View More...]4. Working the Kennet and Avon Canal
The history of the Kennet and Avon Canal and the people who used and worked it. Find out more about the boats and barges, the cargoes, and the communities.
[View More...]5. Decline of the Kennet and Avon Canal
The history of the Kennet and Avon Canal, its decline, takeover by the railway, and its abandonment.
[View More...]6. C is for Canal
Information about the Wilts and Berks Canal which runs near the Museum and is currently under restoration.
[View More...]7. How to use a canal lock
Find out how a canal lock works by using our interactive animation.
[View More...]8. Canal pumping station video clips
Video clips of Claverton and Crofton pumping stations in operation.
[View More...]9. Cricklade Museum Galleries - Canals
A brief hsitory of canals in and around Cricklade.
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