Bath Locks

Bath Bottom Lock, which is numbered as No 7 on the canal is the meeting with the River Avon just south of Pulteney Bridge. [cite web | title=Bath Bottom Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442708 | accessdate=2006-09-04] Alongside the lock is a side pond and pumping station which pumps water up the locks to replace that used each time the lock is opened. [cite web | title=former engine house | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442710 | accessdate=2006-09-04] The next stage of Bath Deep Lock is numbered 8/9 as two locks were combined when the canal was restored in 1976. A road constructed while the canal was in a state of disrepair passes over the original site of the lower lock. [cite web | title=Second Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442716 | accessdate=2006-09-04] The new chamber has a depth of 19ft 5ins, making it Britain's second deepest canal lock. [cite web | title=Deepest Canal Locks in England | work=Pennine Waterways | url=http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/locks.htm| accessdate=2007-10-02] Just above the 'deep lock' is an area of water enabling the lock to refill and above this is Wash House Lock (number 10), [cite web | title=Wash House Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442711 | accessdate=2006-09-04] and soon after by Abbey View Lock (number 11), a grade II listed building [cite web | title=Abbey View Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442714 | accessdate=2006-09-04] by which there is another pumping station and in quick succession Pulteney Lock (12) and Bath top Lock (13). [cite web | title=Top Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442717 | accessdate=2006-09-04] Above the top lock the canal passes through Sydney Gardens where it passes through two tunnels [cite web | title=Tunnel under Beckford Road | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442754 | accessdate=2006-09-04] [cite web | title=Tunnel under under Cleveland House and Sydney Road | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=442751 | accessdate=2006-09-04] and under two cast iron footbridges dating from 1800. Cleveland tunnel is 173 feet long and runs under Cleveland House, the former headquarters of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company. A trap-door in the tunnel roof was employed to exchange paperwork between clerks above and bargees below. [ cite book |last=Pearson |first=Michael |authorlink= |title=Kennet & Avon Middle Thames:Pearson's Canal Companion |year=2003 |publisher=Central Waterways Supplies|location=Rugby |id=ISBN 0-907864-97-X] This is now a grade II* listed building. [cite web | title=Cleveland House | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=443799 | accessdate=2006-09-04]

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