
Image credit: RCHS. 1964, "Junction basin with Kennet & Avon Canal at Semington. Sunken boat with wooden cabin on left"

Image credit: RCHS. 1964, Junction with Kennet & Avon Canal at Semington.

Image credit: RCHS. 1912, Swindon, North Wilts canal heading off north out of the bottom of picture in 1912.

Image credit: RCHS. c1980's, Swindon town centre, former canal junction, looking north.

Junction of Wilts and Berks. Canal with Kennet and Avon Canal. Lock here, fall of 1ft 8ins. is extinct. Toll house exists 50 yds. along canal from junction. Over canal at junction exists an arch bridge to carry Kennet and Avon. towpath. Bridge arch of stone, now filled with concrete; Handrail of Birkinshaw type fish bellied rail from Somerset Coal Canal.
D.L. Banfield Survey, 1969
Junction of Wilts and Berks. Canal with Kennet and Avon Canal. Lock here, fall of 1ft 8ins. is extinct. Toll house exists 50 yds. along canal from junction. Over canal at junction exists an arch bridge to carry Kennet and Avon. towpath. Bridge arch of stone, now filled with concrete; Handrail of Birkinshaw type fish bellied rail from Somerset Coal Canal.
D.L. Banfield Survey, 1969

Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1895, Steventon Basin
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