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Hillmorton Locks

  • Hillmorton Locks get a blooming makeover thanks to volunteers

    Hillmorton Locks get a blooming makeover thanks to volunteers

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    Web Editor

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    Volunteer lock-keepers have been sprucing up Hillmorton Locks on the Oxford Canal in Warwickshire, tackling overgrown vegetation, refreshing a flower bed and bringing mooring rings back into use. VOLUNTEER lock-keepers have tidied up along the Oxford Canal at Hillmorton Locks, Warwickshire. They removed encroaching vegetation and refurbished stone edging at several locks and refreshed a…

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  • Remembering the ‘father of English canals’

    Remembering the ‘father of English canals’

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    Mark Lancaster

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    SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of ‘the father of English canals’, engineer James Brindley. On that day, his last canal – the North Oxford – had reached just below Hillmorton Locks. Local canal heritage group, the Old Mortonians, planned for years to mark the occasion but, according to chairman Ian…

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