Devizes Flight will now be open on 'Cruiseway' day

AP Herbert Lock (46) Devizes

will be open for 'Cruiseway Day"

All the locks on the Kennet & Avon Canal should now be useable on Monday 18th of April — the day that whole length of the canal will be classified as a 'Cruising Waterway'.

The work to replace the bottom gates and cill on AP Herbert Lock (46) on the Devizes Flight will now be completed on Sunday 17th April and the lock will be in operation from 8am on the 18th April.

K&A Canal Devizes Flight stoppage extended

One of the lock gates being removed from AP Herbert 

Lock (46) in Devizes lon Saturday. Picture by Bob Naylor

British Waterways staff worked over the weekend to remove the wooden bottom lock gates at AP Herbert Lock (46) just above the Caen Hill on the Devizes Flight and after removing the lock gates they  found the cill to be in very poor condition.  

This will have to be replaced so the stoppage has now been extended and the lock will re-open at 8am on Friday 22nd April.


Until then through passage on the Devizes Flight will not be possible.


If you need access to the moorings at the top of Caen Hill Flight contact BW Devizes office for more information. Tel: 01380 722859

K&A Canal emergency stoppage on Devizes Flight

AP Herbert Lock (46) on the Devizes Flight, above Caen Hill, is closed until Thursday April 14th for replacement of wooden bottom lock gates that have failed.

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