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Latest Stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool

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Colin Wareing

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July 18, 2023

A leak had been detected either from damage to a culvert that carries a field drainage ditch under the canal or the canal wash wall with the canal flowing into an adjacent farm field. Attempts were made to stop the water flowing through the wash wall with a plastic fibre sheet, but this didn’t stem…
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Locking Ahead – the future of maintenance planning

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Mark Lancaster

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June 28, 2023

In the third article about how the Canal & River Trust maintains its 200-year-old system, national boating manager Matthew Symonds looks at some of the challenges that lay ahead. THE canal network is one of the nation’s greatest regeneration stories. From losing many hundreds of miles of waterways in the last century as canals stopped…
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Navigation at Crofton: re-opened!

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Web Editor

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April 3, 2023

The Kennet & Avon Canal has re-opened to navigation at Crofton, following five months of closure to allow the Canal & River Trust to replace the canal’s pumping system at Crofton. A section of the towpath at Crofton will remain closed until July 2023. The pumping system at Crofton, near Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, keeps…
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Angel Canal Festival postponed for 2023

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Web Editor

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March 18, 2023

The Canal & River Trust has informed Islington Council and other stakeholders on the Regent’s Canal that Angel Canal Festival will not take place in 2023, but that it hopes for the event to return in 2024 with an event sponsor that can help fund the community-led canal celebration. The cost of maintaining the ageing…
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Swarkestone towpath reopens after first phase

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Web Editor

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January 30, 2023

A SECTION of historic canal towpath in Swarkestone has reopened after the Canal & River Trust completed the first phase of improvements. These will make it easier for people to access the canal and to link the canal path to other connecting trails. Working in partnership with Sustrans, CRT has improved 2.5km of the Trent…
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Dead Dog bridge: £500k repairs underway

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Web Editor

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January 20, 2023

The Canal & River Trust has this week started a £533,000 ten-week project to repair the Grade II Listed Interchange Basin Towpath Bridge on the Regent’s Canal in Camden. Built in 1846, the historic bridge known locally as ‘Dead Dog bridge’, is an important local landmark carrying the Regent’s Canal towpath across the canal basin…
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MP visits Caldon Canal project

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Web Editor

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November 18, 2022

STAFFORDSHIRE Moorlands MP Karen Bradley has visited the £2 million project to rebuild the historic Grade II listed Hazelhurst Bridge on the mainline of the Caldon Canal, near Endon. Hosted by Stephen Higham, the Canal & River Trust’s partnerships & external relationships manager for the West Midlands, she met members of the project team to…
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Anderton boat lift to reopen March 2023 after £450K repairs

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Web Editor

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October 28, 2022

The world’s first boat lift, Anderton Boat Lift, near Northwich, will reopen to boats in spring after a major £450,000 repair package this winter, the Canal & River Trust has confirmed. The waterways and wellbeing charity, which operates the Victorian Scheduled Monument alongside caring for its 2,000-mile network of canals and rivers, will start emergency…
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