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Top lock · Caen Hill · Devizes

Twenty-nine locks. Then tea.

Caen Hill Cafe sits at the top of the Caen Hill flight on the Kennet and Avon Canal, in a former lock-keeper’s cottage, looking west down the locks.

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locks in the Devizes flight, sixteen of them in a straight line up Caen Hill.

1810

The year the canal opened. The flight was engineered by John Rennie.

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And at the top: picnic tables, a chalkboard, and the café.

Picnic tables on the brick terrace outside Caen Hill Cafe, under a tree, with the canal and countryside beyond

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Address
Lock Cottage, The Locks
Devizes SN10 1QRAt the top of the Caen Hill flight, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hours
Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10.30am – 4.30pmAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip, especially in winter.
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Lean on the beam. Push open the café door.

Boaters work the gates; walkers follow the towpath. At the top of the Caen Hill flight, both stop at the same small café.

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A toasted sandwich cut in half, served with crisps in a paper tray
10.30Opens every day of the week
4.4On Google, from 919 reviews
5Food hygiene rating, October 2023

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Address
Lock Cottage, The Locks
Devizes SN10 1QRAt the top of the Caen Hill flight, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hours
Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10.30am – 4.30pmAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip, especially in winter.
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Kennet & Avon Canal · Caen Hill

The Lock-Keeper’s Cottage

Now a café, at the top lock

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10.30Café opens, every day of the week.
All dayToasties and ice cream from the counter.
4.00Café closes, Monday to Friday.
4.30Café closes, Saturday and Sunday.
Inside Caen Hill Cafe: a wooden counter with chalkboard menus, an ice cream sign and a small table with a red spotted cloth

Inside: a wooden counter, chalkboard menus, and a little table under a red spotted cloth. Rated 5 for food hygiene.

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Address
Lock Cottage, The Locks
Devizes SN10 1QRAt the top of the Caen Hill flight, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hours
Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10.30am – 4.30pmAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip, especially in winter.
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At the top lock

Caen Hill Cafe

Devizes · Wiltshire

Narrowboats work their way up and down the flight past the door. The café sits beside them in the old lock-keeper’s cottage, with tables outside looking down the locks.

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Every day

10.30am to 4pm in the week, to 4.30pm at weekends.

Toasties & ice cream

From the counter inside, to take out to the picnic tables.

4.1 on Tripadvisor

From 296 reviews, and 4.4 on Google from 919.

Picnic tables on the brick terrace outside Caen Hill Cafe, under a tree, with the canal and countryside beyond

Visit

Address
Lock Cottage, The Locks
Devizes SN10 1QRAt the top of the Caen Hill flight, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hours
Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10.30am – 4.30pmAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip, especially in winter.
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The view from the top of the hill.

From the café’s tables at the top of Caen Hill, the view runs west down the flight of locks and out over the Wiltshire countryside.

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Café, in the former lock-keeper’s cottage
Kennet and Avon Canal, Caen Hill flight
Picnic tables outside
Viewpoint, looking west down the locks
Inside Caen Hill Cafe: a wooden counter with chalkboard menus, an ice cream sign and a small table with a red spotted cloth
A toasted sandwich cut in half, served with crisps in a paper tray

Visit

Address
Lock Cottage, The Locks
Devizes SN10 1QRAt the top of the Caen Hill flight, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hours
Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10.30am – 4.30pmAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip, especially in winter.
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Made it to the top? Ice cream.

Whether you walked up the towpath or worked a boat through the locks, Caen Hill Cafe is waiting at the top, with ice cream at the counter and tables in the sun.

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Picnic tables on the brick terrace outside Caen Hill Cafe, under a tree, with the canal and countryside beyond
Weekdays10.30 – 4.00
Weekends10.30 – 4.30
HygieneRated 5

Visit

Address
Lock Cottage, The Locks
Devizes SN10 1QRAt the top of the Caen Hill flight, Kennet and Avon Canal.
Hours
Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10.30am – 4.30pmAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip, especially in winter.
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