Bath Narrowboats ~ The Kennet & Avon Canal
Unlock the Secret World...
of one of England’s best kept secrets as you cruise along the wooded side
of the Limpley Stoke valley towards the gently rolling landscape of the
Marlborough Downs. The Kennet and Avon Canal offers the holidaymaker the best of
all possible worlds.
The
Kennet and Avon Canal is England’s southernmost link between the Severn and the
Thames. Completed during the Napoleonic Wars in 1810 it was welcomed by the
traders and merchants of Bristol as a safe way of getting their goods to the
capital. It’s 86 mile route leads along the River Avon via fashionable Bath and
then onwards through the downlands of Wiltshire and Berkshire before joining the
Thames at Reading.
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