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Burton-upon-Trent to host 2011 Festival

This new date is a change from the normal practice in recent years of holding it over the August bank holiday and has come after significant consultation with traders, attending public and IWA volunteers who are vital to the staging of the event.

The festival was last held in Burton-upon-Trent in 2004 and it then attracted over 300 visiting canal boats, a similar number of campers and traders and was visited by thousands of the general public.

Trent & Mersey Canal offers many of the visiting craft a wide choice of cruising routes. The area also has a significant number of restoration projects including plans to link the isolated section of the Ashby Canal at Moira to the rest of the waterways system at Snarestone. 

Work is already in the early phases of bringing the Uttoxeter Canal back into water, and just a few miles down the Trent and Mersey Canal is the start of  the Derby Canal which will link Derby City  and the River Derwent to the Erewash Canal forming a circular cruising route with the River Trent when complete.

More information to follow at: www.waterways.org.uk/events_festivals/events_festivals

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