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Kennet and Avon Canal

Stretching for 87 miles past rolling hills and downs, through pretty towns and villages as well as stunning countryside, the Kennet & Avon Canal is one of the most picturesque parts of the inland waterway network. The canal travels from Reading, through Wiltshire, to Bath and the outskirts of Bristol taking in many towns and villages on its way. Use this guide to discover more about the waterway and the many things to see and do on and around it in this, its bicentenary year.

>> Download a copy of the Kennet & Avon Canal Leaflet published by British Waterways.

>>Further information and links to the Kennet & Avon Canal

>>Kennet & Avon Canal on the Waterscape website

Cycling along the Kennet & Avon Canal

>>Download a guide to cycling along the Kennet and Avon canal

Towns and villages near the canal

The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through or near a number of Wiltshire towns and villages. Discover more about these settlements and find places to stay near the canal.

>>Bradford on Avon

>>Trowbridge

>>Melksham

>>Devizes

>>Pewsey

200 years of the Kennet & Avon Canal

The canal is Wiltshire's main waterway and runs right through the centre of the county. It is most famed for the impressive Caen Hill Locks, a flight of 29 locks which rise 297 feet in two miles. However it is also popular with walkers, especially thanks to a new interactive trail, launched in the Pewsey area, where walkers can collect brass rubbings of insects, plant and wildlife which can be spotted along the canal. In 2010 the Kennet & Avon Canal will celebrate its bicentenary, with a host of K&A 200 events.

>>Further details on the Waterscape website

Kennet & Avon Canal celebrates new ale

This year the Kennet & Avon Canal is enjoying its bicentenary, and to help the celebrations go with a swing, local brewers Wadworth & Co. Ltd, have created their very own taste of the waterways - a cask ale called the 'K&A 200'.

>>Futher information on the K&A 200 Celebration Ale

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