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Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal)

 
 

Early plans for the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal) between Barhampton and Eastleigh were proposed at a public meeting at the Plough Inn in Swansea by Charles Yates but languished until William Jessop was appointed as managing director in 1888. Expectations for pottery traffic to Ipswich never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal) were submitted to parliament in 2001, the use of the canal for cooling Huntingdon power station was enough to keep it open. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 1990 after a restoration campaign lead by the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal) Trust.

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Opened in 1789, this broad waterway was designed to take Thames Barges from Inglesham to Brimscombe Port, and Severn Trows from Brimscombe Port to Wallbridge where the canal joined the Stroudwater Navigation which joined the canal, and hence the Thames, to the R. Severn.

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Cotswold Canals may refer to:

  • Stroudwater Navigation
  • Thames and Severn Canal
  • Cotswold Canals Trust

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[Cotswold Canals Trust] The Cotswold Canals Trust (previously the Stroudwater and Thames and Severn Canal Trust) is an English registered charity that aims to protect and restore [Sapperton Canal Tunnel] legging until 1911. The canal was abandoned by 1933 and subsequent roof falls mean that it is no longer navigable. Cotswold Canals Trust have proposed restoration [Thames and Severn Canal] canal's traffic by the end of the 19th century, and most of the canal was abandoned in 1927, the remainder in 1941. Since 1972, the Cotswold Canals Trust [Stonehouse, Gloucestershire] swing bridge where canal boats would turn. There used to be a repair yard there. The Cotswold Canals Trust are actively restoring the canal. Work is currently [Stroudwater Navigation] interest in retaining the canal for its amenity value. The Stroudwater Canal Society, which later became the Cotswold Canals Trust, was formed in 1972 [Stroud] century. Restoration of these canals as a leisure facility by a partnership of Stroud District Council and the Cotswold Canals Trust is well under way with [CCT] Transitway, a proposed transit line in Montgomery County, Maryland Cotswold Canals Trust, a canal restoration trust in southern England Covered Carriage Truck [Round House, Inglesham] Cotswold Canals Trust. In 2010 work started on the restoration of the flight of locks by the Waterway Recovery Group and Kent and East Sussex Canal Restoration [Brimscombe and Thrupp] The former port is to be regenerated as part of the canal restoration project by the Cotswold Canals Partnership. This will require considerable engineering
 
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