Hamstead Lock Weir Exit 
Address is taken from a point 2158 yards away.
Hamstead Lock Weir Exit is on the Kennet and Avon Canal (Main Line).
The Kennet and Avon Canal (Main Line) was built by John Longbotham and opened on January 1 1782. Expectations for iron traffic to Sunderland never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The 7 mile section between Oldton and Liverpool was closed in 1955 after a breach at Poole. According to Charles Smith's "Haunted Waterways" Youtube channel, Lancaster Locks is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

Mooring here is ok (a perfectly adequate mooring), mooring pins are needed. Bit of piling upstream of weir, room for a boat. Check river flow as piling might be here to protect the bank from erosion due to the river entering navigation .
You can wind here.
| Higgs Lock No 83 | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
| Pickletimber Railway Bridge No 65 | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Benham Bridge No 66 | 5 furlongs | |
| Benham Lock No 82 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Benham Lock Winding Hole | 1½ furlongs | |
| Hamstead Lock Weir Exit | ||
| Winding Hole below Hamstead Lock | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Hamstead Bridge No 68 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Hamstead Lock No 81 | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Benham Marsh Winding Hole | 6 furlongs | |
| Copse Lock Weir Exit | 1 mile | |
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![River Kennet. This is a weir where the river crosses the canal. The two weave in and out a few times in this area. The shadow is the towpath bridge over the weir. For an earlier picture at the same location see [[[404044]]] by Dr. Neil Clifton. by Graham Horn – 02 June 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/34/12/1341268_01c5df83_120x120.jpg)







![Weir near Benham Lock. One of the places where the K & A canal and the River Kennet swop sides, with the river flowing into the canal more or less behind me, and then out again over the weir partly shown here. I think this structure is a fish pass, part of a lot of weir upgrading done by the Environment Agency to try and re introduce salmon to the Kennet.This is the same place as shown in [[404044]] from the 1970s. A bit downstream from here beside the non navigable Kennet, the map shows the name Barnett's Lock.I can find no information about it. Anyone know what it refers to? by Des Blenkinsopp – 07 February 2018](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/67/87/5678708_84918177_120x120.jpg)





