great ouse

  • Campaign cruise to highlight funding crisis threatening the Great Ouse

    Campaign cruise to highlight funding crisis threatening the Great Ouse

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    Boaters will travel from St Ives to Bedford this July in a bid to highlight what campaigners describe as a critical lack of investment in the River Great Ouse and Britain’s inland waterways. A FLEET of boats will cruise the River Great Ouse from St Ives to Bedford this month as part of a campaign…

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  • ‘IMPRESSIVE & REFRESHING’: Meeting with the Environment Agency

    ‘IMPRESSIVE & REFRESHING’: Meeting with the Environment Agency

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    Lucy Wood reports… Campaigners championing accessibility on the UK’s waterways said a meeting with the Environment Agency to discuss moorings and facilities was ‘impressive’ and ‘refreshing’. TRACEY and Tim Clarke, founders of the Accessible Waterways Association, were invited to the Denver Complex on the River Great Ouse Relief Channel, near Downham Market, Norfolk, to explore…

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  • New landing stage on Bedford river

    New landing stage on Bedford river

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    A LANDING stage has recently been completed on the River Great Ouse in Bedford to encourage more boats to make the journey to the head of the navigation. Carried out by civil engineers Land & Water, the project, contracted by Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust, involved using specialist plant to create a sheet piled…

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