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Attractions along the canal

Kenavon Venture

A wide-beam trip boat operating from Devizes Wharf

0800 028 3707
Wiltshire Heritage Museum

41 Long Street, Devizes, SN10 1NS

01380 727369

Wadworth Visitor Centre 

New Park St.,Devizes, SN10 1JW

01380 732 277

Wadworth Shire Horses

The stables are open to the public from: 1.30pm to 3.00pm Monday to Friday.

01380 732 277

Pewsey Heritage Centre

Avonside Works, High Street, Pewsey, SN9 5AF.

01672 562617

Crofton Pumping Station

Steam-powered 1812 Boulton & Watt and Harvey beam engines including oldest working beam engine in the world still in its original engine house and capable of actually doing the job for which it was installed - to provide water to the summit of the K&A Canal. Tel: 01672 870300

Wilton Windmill

Wilton Hill, Wilton, Marlborough

SN83SW

01672 870 202

Hungerford

Rose of Hungerford

A wide-beam boat seating 50, operating from Hungerford Wharf just off Hungerford High St

0800 121 4674

Kintbury

The Kennet Horse Boat Company 2 Rectory Cottage, Wickham,

Newbury, RG20 8HD.Traditionally painted horse-drawn canal barge, day trips

01488 658866

Newbury

West Berkshire Museum

The Wharf, Newbury, RG14 5AS

01635 519562 Ext: 2562

Shaw House
Church Road, Newbury, RG14 2DR

01635 519804
The Living Rainforest/Trust for Sustainable Living
Hampstead Norreys, RG18 0TN
01635 202444

UK Wolf Conservation Trust
UK Wolf Centre, Butlers Farm, Beenham
Reading, Berkshire, RG7 5NT
0118 971 3330

Note: With the exception of Open Days and World Animal Day, visits to the UKWCT are by appointment for members only. Please contact the office should you wish to arrange a visit.

Englefield House Gardens

Englefield Estate, Englefield, Theale, RG7 5EN

0118 930 222

Welford Park 

Welford, Newbury, RG20 8HU

Beautiful snowdrop woods along the River Lambourn, and collection of rare galanthus

01488 608 203

Donnington Castle

Castle Lane, Donnington, Newbury
RG14 2LE
Donnington Castle is now the ruins of a 14th century castle with a courtyard of flint and stone; the upstanding remains of an attached gatehouse with repairs in brick; and the surrounding earthworks from a Civil War fieldwork or star fort were built as fortifications by the garrison governor Sir John Boys in the style of Italian Renaissance ‘star’ artillery defences.

Newbury Racecourse
01635 40015
Woolhampton

Greyfield Wood

Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton
Reading, RG7 5TQ

0118 9715300
Kennet Cruises 

Skippered day hire and party charter

14 Beech Lane, Earley, Reading 

RG6 5PT.

0118 987 1115/ 07831 326482

Basildon Park

The perfect English country house in acres of parkland. Built between 1776 and 1783.

The National Trust, Lower Basildon 

Reading, RG8 9NR

01189 843 040

The Museum of English Rural Life

University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX

0118 378 8660

Reading Museum

The Town Hall, Blagrave Street 

Reading, RG1 1QH.

0118 939 9800

The Riverside Museum at Blake’s Lock

Gasworks Road, off Kenavon Drive 

Reading, RG1 3DH.

0118 939 9800

The Cole Museum of Zoology

The University of Reading, Animal and Microbial Sciences Building, Shinfield Road, Reading, RG6 6UR
0118 931 8903

The Ure Museum of Greek

Archaeology

Department of Classics, Humanities Building, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AA 

0118 931 8420 

Bucklebury Farm Park

Bucklebury, Reading, RG7 6RR

0118 971 4002

Bristol

The Bristol Packet

Restaurant boat and boat trips in Bristol’s floating harbour

Wapping Wharf, Gas Ferry Road

BS1 6UN

0117 926 8157

The Bristol Ferry Boat Company

These ferries allow a hop-on, hop-off trip to Harbourside attractions as well as an eclectic mix of cruises on the river.

MB Tempora
Welsh Back, BS1 4SP

0117 9273416

Tangaroa

This 82ft long wooden sailing offers harbour tours and trips from the centre of Bristol along the Avon Gorge to Portishead, Cardiff, Cornwall, Devon and France.

Merchants Row, Wapping Wharf
BS1 6JN Tel: 07764 794 435

Number Seven Boat Trips

Public ferry services and private charter trips around Bristol and on the River Avon. The cross harbour ferry from Brunel’s ss Great Britain to the Harbourside.

N/B Excalibur
Welsh Back, BS1 4SB

0117 929 3659 or 07976 554024

Avon River Cruises Ltd

Private charters on the Silver Salmon operating all year round, from Broad Quay, Bath in the summer season (May to September) and from close to Lloyds Bank ampitheatre, Bristol harbour in the winter season (October to April). Licensed to carry up to 67 passengers.

0117 904 3671

Blue Reef Aquarium & IMAX 3D Cinema

Anchor Road, Harbourside BS1 5TT

0117 929 8929

The Matthew

Great Western Dock, Gas Ferry Rd
BS1 6TY

Cruise around the harbour on a detailed replica of the square rigged wooden ship used by John Cabot on his voyage of discovery from Bristol to Newfoundland in 1497.

0117 927 6868

Waverly & Balmoral Boat Cruises

Explore Bristol’s historic docks and coastlines from two of their magnificent and historic ships. The Waverley is the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. The beautifully restored Balmoral sails down the Avon Gorge to visit the glorious seaside resort of Ilfracombe. Sails from Cumberland Basin, BS1 6XL

0845 130 4647

SS Great Britain

The world’s first propeller-driven ocean-going ship. Designed and launched in 1843.

Great Western Dockyard, Gas Ferry Rd, BS1 6TY

0117 926 0680

The Bristol Tour

See most of Bristol’s major historical sights and museums from the top of bright red open-top bus. The hop on hop off tour takes you to Brunel’s ss Great Britain, travels along part of the spectacular Avon Gorge and right under the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and can even drop you at the Bristol Zoo Gardens and pick you up later. You can start your tour from any point on the timetable.

Departs from City Centre, Central 0333 3210101

Bristol Pirate Walks

Pirate Pete leads one-hour guided walks of Bristol’s historic Harbourside covering Bristol’s often grizzly 16th, 17th and 18th century maritime history, including discovery, trade, slavery and piracy.

Leaving from outside At-Bristol
Millennium Square, Harbourside
BS1 5DB

079 505 664 83

Museum Of Bristol

Due to open on the site of the old Industrial Museum in 2011

Hanham

Kingswood Museum

Tower Lane, Warmley, South Glos

BS30 8XT

0117 960 5664

A cycle ride from Hanham. 18th Century brass works at Warmley.

Quaker industrialist William Champion moved his copper, brass and zinc spelter works from Old Market in Bristol, to a green field site at Warmley in the 1740s where he built a Paladian house, his works and a pin factory, as well as housing for his workers.

Kensham/Bitten

Avon Valley Railway

Bitton Station, Bath Road, Bitton
BS30 6HD

0117 932 5538

Avon Valley Country Park

Pixash Lane, Bath Road, Keynsham

BS31 1TP

0117 986 4929

Saltford Brassmill
The Shallows, Saltford,BS31 3EY

The Brassmill is the only surviving building still with a furnace and working water wheel remaining from a group of eighteenth century mills making brass and copper goods in the Avon Valley between Bristol and Bath.

Bath

Prior Park Landscape Gardens

Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH

01225 833 422

Roman Baths & Pump Room

Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1LZ 

01225 477785

Museum Of Costume

Bath Assembly Rooms, Bennett St,

Bath, BA1 2QH

01225 477 789

Museum of Bath at Work

Camden Works, Julian Road, Bath

BA1 2RH

01225 318348

Jane Austen Centre

40 Gay Street, Queen Square, Bath

BA1 2NT

01225 443000

Ghost Walks of Bath

Outside the Theatre Royal and Garricks Head, Barton Street, Bath

01225 350512

Holburne Museum and Sydney Gardens

The Holburne Museum, Great

Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DB

01225 466669
Lady Lena

Skippered charter trips on the Kennet and Avon Canal plying between Bath and Bradford–on-Avon on a historic electric river launch

01225 834250

Pulteney Princess

Scheduled trips from Pulteney Weir to Bathampton Mill

Tel: 07791 910650

Bath City Boat Trips

Trips from Pulteney Weir along the River Avon on MV Cleopatra and MV Avon Empress

07974 560197

The Penny Lane

A contemporary, flexible floating venue for private parties or corporate events

North Parade Bridge, North Parade, Bath BA2 4EU.

01225 303434

Avon River Cruises Ltd

0117 904 3671

Pultney Cruisers

Bath Boating Station, Forester Road

Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6QE

Tel: 01225 312900

Open-topped boats, no tickets, pay on board

The John Rennie

Luxurious restaurant craft that can accommodate between 10 and 50 guests

Bath Narrowboats, Sydney Wharf, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 4EL

01225 447276

Limpley Stoke

nb Jubilee

A 30-seat converted traditional narrowboat. Operating from Brassknocker Basin, Limpley Stoke

0800 121 4682
Claverton Pumping Station

Waterwheel-powered beam engine built in 1810 to raise water from the
River Avon to the Kennet & Avon Canal

01225 483001

American Museum (1.89 miles from Limpley Stoke)

Claverton Manor, Claverton, Bath,

BA2 7B

01225 460 503

The Peto Garden at Iford Manor (1.99 miles from Limpley Stoke)

Iford, Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire,

BA15 2BA

01225 863 146

Bradford on Avon

Barbara McLellan

65ft wide-beam boat for 51 passengers operating from Bradford on Avon Wharf Cottage

0800 121 4679
The Tithe Barn

Frome Road
Bradford-on-Avon

BA15 1LF

A spectacular 14th century monastic stone barn, 51 metres (168 feet) long, with an amazing timber cruck roof

Tithe Barn Workshops & Galleries

Barton Grange Farm

Pound Lane 

Bradford-on-Avon 

BA15 1LF

Resident artists, craft workers and antique restorers

Bradford on Avon Museum

Bridge Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1BY.

01225 863280

Quoins Vineyard, and Avonleigh Vineyard

Hold open days, guided tours and tastings throughout the summer. Little Ashley Vineyard is next door too.

Bradford on Avon, BA15 1NF

07835 265082

Trowbridge

Trowbridge Museum, The Shires

Trowbridge, BA14 8AT

01225 751339

Devizes

Caen Hill Flight of Locks

This flight of 16 locks may be the most impressive anywhere on the UK’s waterways. The Caen Hill Locks are part of a longer 29-lock flight at Devizes, all packed into just over two miles to rise 237 feet.

Caen Hill Car Park, Rowde, Devizes

(signposted from the A365 west of Devizes)
K&A Canal Museum

Canal Centre, Devizes Wharf, Couch Lane, Devizes, SN10 1EB

01380 721279

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