Newbury Lock

Newbury Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal in the town centre of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire.

It has brick walls that are capped with Bath Stone and which are wider at the top than at the base in an attempt to counteract frost damage.

It was built in 1796, as part of the construction of the Kennet and Avon Canal linking Newbury and Bath.

[2][3][4] Newbury Lock was the easternmost lock on the original Kennet and Avon Canal, and downstream it connected to what was the much older Kennet Navigation, opened in 1727 between Reading and Newbury.

[2][4] Adjacent to the lock is a sculpture called Ebb And Flow, created by the sculptor Peter Randall-Page.