Bristol & Bath - April 2006
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The bids, H and I took a walk from Bath to Bathampton along the Kennet & Avon Canal. It was a sunny bank holiday weekend and the canal path was popular with casual walkers, although there was very few boat movements.
See my 2002 narrowboat trip for pictures of the canal further along it's route.
See Bristol & Bath 2004 for pictures of the River Avon in Bath
The river Avon in Bath just downstream of the junction with the canal. If you follow the river upstream past the junction, you soon reach the impressive weir.
The lock that forms the junction with the river.
The unusual hydraulic paddle gear on Bath Deep Lock.
These GWR signs appear on most of the small bridges across the canal in Bath.
Narrowboats and attractive back gardens.
The Great Western mainline railway is entirely concealed as it passes through Sydney Gardens in a deep cutting.
The Canal is only a few yards away in a cutting of its own with bridges linking the two sides of the park.Walk around South Bristol
I took a long walk around Stockwood, Woollard, Compton Dando and Keynsham. The countryside is really nice to walk in - close to the city but attractive and a good network of well-maintained footpaths. I only took a few photos.
I just loved this tree, you can see Keynsham in the distance.
A beautiful bridleway above Woollard.
Woollard.
One of the many beautiful flowers on the side of the paths near Compton Dando.
This is great! A lamp post that has been cemented into two walls.
What came first? The lamp, the left wall or the house? The lamp looks the the newest to me, which makes no sense.
Pipe bridge over the Chew.
