The Kennet and Avon Canal is a navigable waterway crossing southern
England from Bristol to Reading.
The canal, completed in 1810, passes through a rural landscape,
over chalk vales and river valleys. It winds its way through
villages, market towns and the City of Bath.
The waterway is a thread linking many architectural and
engineering triumphs, including aqueducts, pumping stations and
lock flights. It is a combination of three waterways: the River
Avon to the west, the River Kennet to the East, both of which are
linked by fifty-seven miles of man made waterway.
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You can park at the station at N51 23.639 W001 14.595 and from
there it is a shortish walk to the cache.
You will walk past one of only two remaining turf sided locks in
Britain. The sides of the lock are not clad with brick but slope up
from the canal bottom to turf sides. This requires more water to
operate and so most locks of this kind have been upgraded to brick
sided locks. The other remaining example, Garston lock is also on
the Kennet and Avon canal near Theale.*
There is a good towpath all the way to the cache and there are
no stiles to lift your dog over. 
The cache is a small plastic box containing some small
swaps.
This cache is 1 of 36 caches hidden along 19 miles of the Kennet
and Avon canal between and Thatcham and Great Bedwyn via Newbury,
Kintbury, Hungerford, Froxfield and Little Bedwyn.
GCWFW1 Monkey Marsh Bridge
GCJTY7 Between Two Locks by Subarite
GCNX4N Widmead Lock
GCNX47 Bull's Lock
GCNV5Y Ham Lock by Alibags
GCNV6B The Narrowboat by Alibags
GCMRDJ Greenham Lock by Alibags
GCK0K9 Lock, Stock and Barrel (Berks)
GCN79X Monkey Bridge by d&c
GCKA2W Guyer's Lock (Berks)
GCJCPG Canal Bypass by dogastus
GCK87H Benham Bridge
GCK8NP Hamstead Lock
GCK8NR Copse Lock
GCK8NV Dreweat's Lock
GCGGHW Shepherd's Bridge
GCMMBM Kintbury Lock II
GCK87T Brunsden's Lock
GCK87P Wire Lock
GCHGKY Hunger for this too (300 yards from the
canal)
GCK87W Hungerford Lock
GCKYHA Marsh Lock
GCKYHC Cobbler's Lock
GCM1KV Picketfield Lock
GCQGK6 Between by The White Family
GCM3G2 Froxfield Lock
GCHRBT Something for Everyone by The Scooby Snacks +
The Rangers of Ithilien
GCM547 Fore Bridge
GCM6V4 Little Bedwyn Lock
GCM6V5 Potter's Lock
GCM86J Great Bedwyn Lock
GCM86M Church Lock
GCN0PV Mill Bridge
GCN0R6 Beech Grove Lock
GCN0RB Wilton Brail Lock
GCJCBJ Crofton Beam Engines
The towpath is well maintained and suitable for cycling. There
is a railway line running parallel with the canal with stations at
Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, Hungerford and Great Bedwyn, so you
could park at one station, walk the towpath finding caches and then
catch the train back.
Please check out the Geocaching Association of
Great Britain
offering support for Geocachers in the
UK
* Thanks to The Hole in the Wall Gang for the
information.