WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST

Cover Photo; Abingdon Junction Opening with insert picture of Ribbon Cutting Photographgers Graham Smith & Doug Small

Partnership News: This includes details of the Jubilee Junction celebrations and news of the progress of the Lottery bid which has reached the final stages and has already produced a £250,000 Award. a water resources report is to be produced in connection with the Lottery Bid. N Wilts have commissioned a consultation exercise to demonstrate Community support.  The final Melksham report is expected in a few weeks  and the route to the south and the K&A junction is known.

Around the Branches Reports from along the line.  These include from Foxham & Lyneham the completion of Lock 3 chamber (Seven Locks). An engineering study is underway which looks at the route from Chaddington Lane, past the landfill site in the Wootton Bassett area.   The River Key aqueduct at Cricklade has been completed.  In  West Vale work is going ahead on the reconstruction of Steppingstones Bridge. At East Vale the big story is the Jubilee Junction

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