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Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking to the west from Bishops Cannings Swing Bridge.
©Michel Van den Berghe
Dist:0.3km<br/>Situated in Horton, this TE used to take the name Cannings. Besides Horton, this TE also serves All Cannings, Allington, Bishop's Cannings, Coate and Etchilhampton nearby. This TE with a red K6 phone box and a small post box would date from the GPO era when they were a common sight in rural areas. Thankfully, some still remain although the phone box may be of a later model. The dark brown building with a louvre at its front would have been added somewhile after the redbrick TE was built. This TE has (01380) 860xxx numbers, the (01380) referring to the Devizes group of TEs, and its postcode is SN10 3NB.
©David Hillas
Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen here from the western side, this bridge just carries a public footway, handy no doubt for Horton residents intent on a visit to the pub. in Bishops Canning and a considerable save over the distance by road.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bridge here is seen from the east.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Several narrowboats are moored by the towpath on this quiet stretch of the canal.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was taken in May 2004 looking along the canal to the North East
©Trevor Pearce-Jones
Dist:0.6km<br/>The canal was opened in 1810 so will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2010.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>The image is taken from bridge 134 near the Bridge Inn. The canal is still frozen from the recent cold spell.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Soon after crossing the Kennet and Avon Canal on Horton Chain Bridge.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>There used to be a swing bridge here, and for years after its replacement by this fixed bridge, it was referred to as Horton 'Swing' Bridge - which, of course, led to confusion with Horton Fields Swing Bridge, some distance to the east.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.7km<br/>Bridge 134 in the early morning sunshine.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.7km<br/>It's either an optical illusion or my camera but I could swear that the bridge is not symmetrical. Anyway this is Horton Bridge taking Horton Road over the canal. Update February 2011 I am indebted to a fellow Geographer, Maurice Pullin, for the following explanation "Not an optical illusion or a camera fault. As designed by John Rennie. The extra height over the towpath allowed horses to pass under without knocking their heads. If the bridge had been symmetrical it would have been much higher in the middle. All the original fixed bridges on the K&A were built this way, also bridges on the Lancaster Canal, another wide canal engineered by John Rennie."
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking across fields from Horton Bridge; the sign indicates a footpath route to Bishops Cannings village which cuts off the corner compared with going by road. The middle distance view is somewhat marred by electricity pylons; in the distance is Roundway Hill.
©Stephen McKay
Dist:0.7km<br/>And the Bridge Inn, a popular venue with boaters on the Kennet and Avon Canal. The road continues to Horton. Seen from the junction with Chandlers Lane, the road to Bishops Cannings.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Showing the well-kept beer garden of this delightful canalside inn.
©Stephen McKay

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