alt=A series of approximately 20 black lock gates with white ends to the paddle arms and wooden railings, each slightly higher than the one below. On the right is a path and on both sides grass and vegetation.|thumb|The flight of 16 locks at [[Caen Hill Locks|Caen Hill, Devizes, forming part of locks 22-50]]
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. The name may refer to either the route of the original Kennet and Avon Canal Company, which linked the River Kennet at Newbury to the River Avon at Bath, or to the entire navigation between the River Thames at Reading and the Floating Harbour at Bristol, including the earlier improved river navigations of the River Kennet between Reading and Newbury and the River Avon between Bath and Bristol.
The River Kennet was made navigable to Newbury in 1723, and the River Avon to Bath in 1727. The Kennet and Avon Canal between Newbury and Bath was built between 1794 and 1810 by John Rennie, to convey commercial barges carrying a variety of cargoes, and is 57 miles (92 km) long. The two river navigations and the canal total 87 miles (140 km) in length. largely by volunteers, and today is a popular heritage tourism destination, for boating, canoeing, fishing, walking and cycling. It is also important for wildlife conservation.
There are 105 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal from Bristol to the River Thames, including six on the navigable section of the River Avon from Bristol to Bath and nine on the navigable section of the River Kennet to its confluence with the Thames near Reading. The remaining 90 locks lie along the 57 miles (92 km) of canal.) and two that have been combined to form a single deep lock (8 and 9, now Bath Deep Lock).
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|Keynsham Lock
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|Swineford Lock
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|Saltford Lock
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|Kelston Lock
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|Weston Lock
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|Bath Bottom Lock
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|Bath Deep Lock
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|Wash House Lock
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|Abbey View Lock
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|Pulteney Lock
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|Bath Top Lock
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|Bradford Lock
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|Buckley's Lock
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|Barrett's Lock
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|Seend Locks
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|Caen Hill Locks
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