Bath Locks

{{Short description|Canal locks in Bath, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}

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Bath Locks ({{gbmapping|ST756643}}) are a series of locks, now six locks, situated at the start of the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Bath, England.

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/details/default.aspx?id=442708 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019202752/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442708 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-19 | 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/details/default.aspx?id=442710 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021231713/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442710 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-21 | 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/details/default.aspx?id=442716 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116175605/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442716 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-11-16 | accessdate=2006-09-04}} The new chamber has a depth of {{convert|5.92|m|ftin}},{{cite web | title=Bath Deep Lock | work=Canal and River Trust | url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/bath-flight/deep-lock | accessdate=2014-12-30 }} 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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012153244/http://penninewaterways.co.uk/locks.htm |archivedate=12 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}

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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/details/default.aspx?id=442711 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013163820/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442711 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-10-13 | 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/details/default.aspx?id=442714 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010051344/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442714 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-10-10 | 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/details/default.aspx?id=442717 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202013750/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442717 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-12-02 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}

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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/details/default.aspx?id=442754 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127212234/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442754 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-11-27 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}{{cite web | title=Tunnel under Cleveland House and Sydney Road | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442751 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013163701/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442751 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-10-13 | accessdate=2006-09-04}} and under two cast iron footbridges dating from 1800. Cleveland tunnel is {{convert|52.7|m|ft}} long and runs under Cleveland House, the former headquarters of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company. The tunnel is a Grade II* listed building.{{cite web | title=Cleveland House | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443799 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012232130/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443799 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-12 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}

Many of the bridges over the canal are also listed buildings.{{cite web | title=Footbridge Adjoining Top Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442749 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116175133/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442749 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-11-16 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}{{cite web | title=Footbridge adjoining Wash House Lock | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442712 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118211846/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442712 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-11-18 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}{{cite web | title=Footbridge over Canal | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442752 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014180935/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442752 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-10-14 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}{{cite web | title=Canal Bridge | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444245 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022002952/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=444245 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-22 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}{{cite web | title= Bridge over Canal | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442753 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022003021/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442753 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-22 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}{{cite web | title= Canal Bridge (Pulteney Gardens) | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442713 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122020509/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442713 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-11-22 | accessdate=2006-09-04}}

The locks were restored in 1968 by a collaboration involving staff from British Waterways and volunteer labour organised by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.{{cite web|title=Kennet & Avon Canal|url=http://www.waterways.org.uk/learning/historic_campaigns/kennet___avon_canal|publisher=Inland Waterways Association|accessdate=17 May 2011}}