MP for Doncaster North, Ed Miliband, has officially opened a special fish pass at Sprotbrough Weir on the River Don designed to help migratory salmon and sea trout and other fish migrate up and downstream. The £500,000 project has been completed by the Environment Agency, working with partners including the Canal & River Trust, Don…
Exciting new plans to extend Cropredy Marina have been submitted to Cherwell District Council by owner operator Tim Langer. The proposal will see the popular marina, already at capacity, increase its mooring capacity by one hundred berths – helping to accommodate those customers on its substantial waiting list. The proposed new marina basin will be…
The Canal & River Trust is today launching a new website for the sale of its long-term moorings. The new Waterside Mooring website will show all current vacancies on a map or list and provide photos and details of over 300 mooring sites managed by the Trust. In time there will be videos of locations…
National poetry day was last week and I was inspired to have a go. Sorry about that, but you will be pleased to learn that this will be my last attempt to be a published poet. To the Inlands at Alton, to sail in a fleet Inbreds from Wessex, from Norfolk webbed feet Old Mikey…
The winners of the 2015 Living Waterways Awards were announced at an awards ceremony held last night (8 October 2015) in London. Launched by the Canal & River Trust in January, and sponsored by Keir, CPC Civils, Fountains and Hyder Consulting, the Living Waterways Awards seek to recognise the most inspiring and exciting waterway-based improvement…
As the rowing season kicks off, an updated, easy-to-use guide to rowing on the Thames has been launched by the Port of London Authority and Thames Regional Rowing Council (TRRC). The original Rowing Code of Practice, launched in 2006, rapidly became the ‘bible’ for safe rowing on the Thames. The new, user friendly version was…
A new trail created for children at the Canal & River Trust’s Ellesmere canal repair yard in Shropshire will help them travel back in time and find out what it was like when the yard was opened over 200 years ago. The trail has been developed thanks to a donation from Trimpley Court, a nearby…
Visitors will be able to step back in time when the Canal & River Trust’s Ellesmere canal repair yard in Shropshire is opened to the public as part of the annual Ellesmere Festival and national Heritage Open Days. The event offers the opportunity for people to see behind the scenes of historic buildings that are…
Two toll houses at the world’s first boat lift, Anderton Boat Lift in Northwich, have been refurbished, allowing visitors to step back in time and experience what it was like to book a boat passage a hundred years ago. The £90,000 restoration project has been carried out by the Canal & River Trust, the charity…
The Montgomery canal is to be re-opened on Monday 17 August after emergency repairs were carried out to a leak in the embankment near Queen’s Head in Shropshire. The leak was adjacent to Aston Nature Reserve in the middle of a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and repairs had to be carried out sympathetically…
