Claire Perry helps celebrate the 200th Birthday of the Kennet and Avon Canal
On Friday November 26th, Claire Perry helped celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the opening of the Kennet and Avon Canal. Together with Mike Rodd, the head of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust and Mark Stephens, waterways manager for British Waterways, Claire heard from 'John Rennie', the engineer given the forbidding task of bringing the canal up Caen Hill, who explained how the 29 locks and side ponds were the solution to the problem. After the meeting Claire said 'The Kennet and Avon Canal is one of the jewels in the crown of this wonderful Constituency. The Caen Hill flight represents the pluck and determination of the townspeople of Devizes who wanted the canal brought up to the top of the hill - and the wonderful locks and ponds we today are part of our industrial heritage'.
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