
This is a lock with a rise of 9f7.
| Horseshoe Walk Bridge Visitor Mooring | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Wash House Lock No 10 | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Bath Deep Lock Nos 8 and 9 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Pulteney Road Bridge No 192 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Rossiter Road Bridge No 193 | ¼ furlongs | |
| Bath Bottom Lock No 7 | ||
| Dolmeads Bridge No 194 | a few yards | |
| River Avon Junction | ¼ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Bath Bottom Lock
Bath Locks (grid reference ST756643) 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. 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.
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. The new chamber has a depth of 5.92 metres (19 ft 5 in), 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), and soon after by Abbey View Lock (number 11), a grade II listed building by which there is another pumping station and in quick succession Pulteney Lock (12) and Bath top Lock (13).
Above the top lock the canal passes through Sydney Gardens where it passes through two tunnels and under two cast iron footbridges dating from 1800. Cleveland tunnel is 52.7 metres (173 ft) long and runs under Cleveland House, the former headquarters of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company. The tunnel is a grade II* listed building.
Many of the bridges over the canal are also listed buildings.
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.

![Widcombe Lock, Kennet & Avon Canal. Widcombe Lock https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1395962 is also known as Lock 7, Bottom Lock or Chapel Lock. On the left is Thimble Mill Pumping Station https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1395945 ; see [[[6345132]]]. by Derek Harper – 08 December 2019](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/34/63/6346320_28ecbf2a_120x120.jpg)
![Willow at Widcombe Lock. A winter version of [[5060897]] by the bottom lock on the K&A canal just before it joins the River Avon. by Des Blenkinsopp – 13 January 2022](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/07/15/7071557_dce1cbb4_120x120.jpg)
















![Start of Kennet and Avon Canal. Another view of the point shown in [[481418]] where the canal leaves the River Avon. Seen from Widcombe footbridge. by Derek Harper – 25 August 2008](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/photos/94/03/940305_81307654_120x120.jpg)









![River Avon and start of Kennet and Avon Canal. A winter version of [[940305]], with the entrance to the canal, and weeping willows looking perhaps even better in winter colours than in leaf. The bridge across the mouth of the canal is listed http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-442709-kennet-and-avon-canal-bridge-adjoining-l , as is the former engine house with its stack http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-442710-kennet-and-avon-canal-garage-former-engi . by Derek Harper – 11 February 2012](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/80/94/2809450_681db8cf_120x120.jpg)
