The Start/End Points of Reading and Bristol are essentially on the same Latitude so I did not need to twiddle the map at all from pointing North. The length shows as almost 90 miles and a crow would clock up just on 70 miles. The high point (Bruce Tunnel on Walk 4) is a bit over 500 feet above sea level with the plateau (so no locks) for about 20 miles to the West at about 450 feet.

On the East side the "navigation" (river and canal) essentially follows the River Kennet course to Reading and joins the River Thames at 125 feet altitude, maintaining navigation all the way with a good number of locks which are identified on the FlyOvers for Walks 1 to 4.

On the West side it essentially follows the River Avon course to Bristol (at sea level), maintaining navigation all the way with a greater number of locks because of the sudden increase in slope at Caen Hill, all of which being identified on the FlyOvers for Walks 5 to 8.

However this is not a history or geography lesson but a Virtual Tour featuring FlyOvers, SatNavs etc and most of all Street View Panoramas and was only made possible because of the efforts of one man Uy Hoang.

While he was rather coy about his mammoth task on the Thames over 5 years it was only by chance that I discovered that AT THE SAME TIME he had slotted in other Trails including a further 20,000 or so panoramas all the way along the Kennet and Avon Canal.

I might also mention that while the initiative for "Trekker on trails" (using a borrowed 26 kg Google backpack camera) started in 2016 (and sadly ended shortly after) via this Guardian Article, I have also found some Trekkers dating from 2013 at a few locations along this Canal (eg Pano #20 on Walk 2 and marked as "Kennet & Avon Canal Trust") and clearly from the shadows using the same (or similar) large backpack camera as in 2016.

This seems to have been an initial experiment via Google similar to that on the South Downs Way in 2014, but never going any further, so it is most fortunate that Uy Hoang has completed so many of these "seemed like a good idea to try out at the time" projects once the new technology (which I call "DIY Trekker") of tiny personal panorama cameras became available.

While this Virtual Tour is designed as a Walking Trail exercise it is also directly applicable to a Canal Boat trip.