Keynsham Lock

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Keynsham Lock is a canal lock situated on the River Avon at Keynsham, England.

The Bristol Avon Navigation, which runs the {{convert|15|mi}} from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, was constructed between 1724 and 1727,{{cite web | url=https://www.waterways.org.uk/waterways/canals_rivers/bristol_avon/bristol_avon |publisher= Inland Waterways Association | title= Bristol Avon Navigation|access-date=3 March 2013}} following legislation passed by Queen Anne,{{Cite web | title=Navigation of the river Avon | work=Bristol History.com | url=http://weldgen.tripod.com/bristol-history-com/id2.html | access-date=22 September 2006| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070110214011/http://weldgen.tripod.com/bristol-history-com/id2.html| archive-date = 10 January 2007}}{{cite wikisource |plaintitle=Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain |chapter=Avon River, Gloucestershire |last=Priestley |first=Joseph |year=1831 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green}} by a company of proprietors and the engineer John Hore of Newbury. The first cargo of 'Deal boards, Pig-Lead and Meal' arrived in Bath in December 1727.{{cite book|last1=Allsop|first1=Niall|title=The Kennet & Avon Canal|date=1989|publisher=Millstream Books|isbn=9780948975158|edition=2|page=[https://archive.org/details/kennetavoncanalu0000alls/page/4 4]|url=https://archive.org/details/kennetavoncanalu0000alls/page/4}} The navigation is now administered by the Canal & River Trust.

The old bridge next to the lock played a part in the Civil War as the Roundheads saved the town and also camped there for the night, using the pub now known as the Lock Keeper's Inn as a guard post.{{cite web|url=http://www.keynsham.co.uk/history/monmouthrebellion.html |title=Keynshams part in the Monmouth Rebellion |last=Clark |first=Pete |publisher=Keynsham Community Website |access-date=30 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305123512/http://www.keynsham.co.uk/history/monmouthrebellion.html |archive-date= 5 March 2010 |url-status=dead }} The lock opened in 1727.{{cite book|last1=Allsop|first1=Niall|title=The Kennet & Avon Canal|date=1989|publisher=Millstream Books|isbn=9780948975158|edition=2|page=[https://archive.org/details/kennetavoncanalu0000alls/page/17 17]|url=https://archive.org/details/kennetavoncanalu0000alls/page/17}}

Just above the lock are some visitor moorings and a pub, on an island between the lock and the weir. The weir side of the island is also the mouth of the River Chew. The adjacent bridge was replaced after damage in the Great Flood of 1968.{{cite book|last1=Clew|first1=Kenneth R.|title=Wessex Waterway|date=1978|publisher=Moonraker Press|isbn=978-0239001818|page=60}}