Devizes, Wiltshire - Kennet & Avon Canal, narrow boats - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Kennet & Avon Canal in Devizes, Wiltshire - shows 2 narrow boats 
• Publisher:  The Dorothy House Foundation, Bath
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km),^[1] made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section. From Bristol to Bath the waterway follows the natural course of the River Avon before the canal links it to the River Kennet at Newbury, and from there to Reading on the River Thames. In all, the waterway incorporates 105 locks.

The two river stretches were made navigable in the early 18th century, and the 57-mile (92 km) canal section was constructed between 1794 and 1810. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the canal gradually fell into disuse after the opening of the Great Western Railway. In the latter half of the 20th century the canal was restored in stages, largely by volunteers. After decades of dereliction and much restoration work, it was fully reopened in 1990. The Kennet and Avon Canal has been developed as a popular heritage tourism destination for boating, canoeing, fishing, walking and cycling, and is also important for wildlife conservation.

Devizes /d?va?z?z/ is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Chippenham and about 11 miles (18 km) east of Trowbridge.

Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week. It has nearly five hundred listed buildings, a large open Green at the heart of the town,^[2] some notable churches and a Town Hall. Its development has grown around the 11th century Norman castle.

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Devizes is famous for its canal waterway which was restored between 1970 and 2003, the Kennet and Avon Canal runs through Devizes and the Caen Hill Locks are located in Devizes. The Kennet and Avon Trust run a museum at The Wharf in Devizes. Devizes is the starting point to the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Marathon.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=wiltshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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