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The Chequers Inn, The Boathouse bar and Old Lock & Weir Ale House overlook the weir stream past
Hanham Lock
.
The ridge rising to the north of Keynsham Hams
.
The former Newbridge railway bridge carries the Avon Walkway and cycleway over al-
though there are plans to restore the Avon Valley Railway along this line to the outskirts of
Bath. This is the end of the city with Bath Marina, the Boathouse public house and the A4
crossing between them on the graceful 26m Bath stone-arch New Bridge of 1740, which con-
tinues as a viaduct of stone on the south-west side of the river.
A dormitory suburb, Saltford has some interesting and attractive buildings near the river.
Saltford Brass Mill, formerly a fulling mill, was water-powered, the last of its kind. It closed
in 1925, the most complete annealing and brass-rolling mill in the country. Brass mills in this
valley made their money out of trinkets for the slave trade. Handel is said to have written the
Hallelujah Chorus
after hearing the hammers. By the church, Saltford Manor is one of the
oldest inhabited houses in England, its 17th century facade hiding what is a mostly Norman
house.
