Avoncliff is a tiny hamlet nestling in the Limpley Stoke Valley near Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, England. Image:Avoncliff.jpg
It has a tiny railway station, boasting just a one-carriage-length platform in each direction, at which the trains must be requested to stop. Services are hourly, run by Wessex Trains, and generally continue on to Weymouth via Westbury, or Bristol Temple Meads. Class 153 unit no. ...
It is the point at which the Kennet and Avon canal crosses the river and railway line, and there is a picturesque weir and public house. The Kennet and Avon Canal at Brass-Knocker-Bottom near Bath The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. ...
Here is the Avoncliff Website: http://www.avoncliff.co.uk/
Avoncliff in pictures: http://www.avoncliff.co.uk/avoncliff_in_pictures/
Avoncliff community Group: http://www.avoncliff.co.uk/community/
Places to stay: http://www.avoncliff.co.uk/where-to-stay/ Places to Eat: http://www.avoncliff.co.uk/where-to-eat/
Avoncliff is a hamlet in the Parish of Westwood and comprises 27 homes (3 of which are actually in the parish of Winsley), several boat homes and a public house.
The hamlet lies in the bottom of the valley formed by the River Avon and is divided into 3 sectors by the Kennet and Avon Canal, the railway and the River Avon.
Avoncliff is dominated by the Avoncliff aqueduct which carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the railway and is bounded on its eastern edge by mill buildings and on its western edge by Ancliff Square, an imposing rectangular building formerly known as The Old Court.
Strictly speacking, I should have titled this week's pictures as "Trowbridge to Avoncliff" as that was the walk I made, but as Bradford on Avon was the inspiration and many of the pictures were taken there I'm putting these pictures under the same banner to link them to the other weeks' pages.
An immaculate narrowboat approaches Bradford on Avon from Avoncliff on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
The Avoncliff Aqueduct is actually two aqueducts: this is the original over the River Avon, the other goes over the railway (we saw it in the picture at the top of the page).
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