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Shropshire Gap

  • The canal campaigners who refused to let the Monty run dry

    The canal campaigners who refused to let the Monty run dry

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    Mark Lancaster

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    Sixty years after a last-ditch meeting in a Newport hotel, the Shropshire Union Canal Society is still fighting for the waterways of the historic Shropshire Union network – turning threatened closures into volunteer-powered restorations and keeping up the pressure to bridge the final ‘Shropshire Gap.’ THE Shropshire Union Canal Society (SUCS) began life on Wednesday,…

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  • NEXT STEP: Reaching the Shropshire Gap

    NEXT STEP: Reaching the Shropshire Gap

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    Web Editor

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    WORK being carried out by the Shropshire Union Canal Society to restore part of the Montgomery Canal continues apace. Lucy Wood brings us up to speed The society’s regular working parties are currently focused on the Crickheath South project to restore the dry channel between Crickheath Bridge (bridge 85) at Crickheath Basin and Schoolhouse Bridge…

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  • RESTORING the Monty and closing the Shropshire Gap

    RESTORING the Monty and closing the Shropshire Gap

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    Web Editor

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    MORE than 40 people from 22 different groups saw recent work completed on the Montgomery Canal and were shown plans for future projects. They were attending the Northern Canals Association meeting at Llanymynech, on the Montgomery Canal, hosted by the Shropshire Union Canal Society (SUCS). The bulk of the day was taken up by visiting…

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  • Closing the Shropshire Gap on the Montgomery Canal

    Closing the Shropshire Gap on the Montgomery Canal

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    Web Editor

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    THE Shropshire Gap has become the colloquial term for the unrestored section of the Montgomery Canal between Crickheath Basin to Llanymynech, on the Welsh border. But the gap is steadily diminishing as work continues at Crickheath South and Schoolhouse Bridge. This work has been helped in no small part by public donations and volunteers from…

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