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Bath Locks () are a series of locks, now six locks, situated at the start of the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Bath, England. Bath Bottom Lock, which is numbered as No 7 on the canal is the meeting with the River Avon just south of Pulteney Bridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 Alongside the lock is a side pond and pumping station which pumps water up the locks to replace that used each time the lock is opened.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 The next stage of Bath Deep Lock is numbered 8/9 as two locks were combined when the canal was restored in 1976. A road constructed while the canal was in a state of disrepair passes over the original site of the lower lock.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 The new chamber has a depth of ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Canal and River Trust )〕 making it Britain's second deepest canal lock. Just above the 'deep lock' is an area of water enabling the lock to refill and above this is Wash House Lock (number 10),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 and soon after by Abbey View Lock (number 11), a grade II listed building〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 by which there is another pumping station and in quick succession Pulteney Lock (12) and Bath top Lock (13).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 Above the top lock the canal passes through Sydney Gardens where it passes through two tunnels〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 and under two cast iron footbridges dating from 1800. Cleveland tunnel is long and runs under Cleveland House, the former headquarters of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company. A trap-door in the tunnel roof was employed to exchange paperwork between clerks above and barges below. This is now a grade II * listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 Many of the bridges over the canal are also listed buildings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Images of England )〕 The locks were restored in 1968 by a collaboration involving staff from British Waterways and volunteer labour organised by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.waterways.org.uk/learning/historic_campaigns/kennet___avon_canal )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bath Locks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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