
	Where results make sense

Topic: Wilts and Berks Canal

Related Topics

Canals of the United Kingdom

Calne

Ocean

Anthology

Alexander I of Russia

Science fiction film

Department of Health

EBay

Richard III of England

Gilbert and Sullivan

Bishop of Birmingham

Canadian Armed Forces

Latin American music

Jacques Chirac

British Royal Family

	Wilts and Berks Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilts and Berks Canal is, as its name suggests, a canal in the traditional counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England.
		The main canal ran from Abingdon on the River Thames through Swindon to Semington on the Kennet and Avon Canal, a distance of about 60 miles.
		The branch from Swindon to Cricklade linking there to the Thames and Severn Canal was opened in 1819 and known as the North Wilts Canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilts_and_Berks_Canal (238 words)

	Historical Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Wilts and Berks Canal was built between 1795 and 1810 by The Company of Proprietors of the Wilts and Berks Canal Navigation as a link between the Kennet and Avon Canal (originally the Western Canal) near Melksham and Abingdon on the Thames in Berkshire.
		When the Wilts and Berks Canal was built the town of Melksham had a population of just over 5,000 and the village of Swindon a mere 1,000.
		The canal's presence was a factor in the sighting of the locomotive works when the canal provided coal, building materials and water.
	www.wb-canal-melksham.org /images.html (455 words)

	The Wilts and Berks Canal
		Canals are finding a fresh, vigorous new purpose at the heart of both urban and rural communities.
		The Wilts and Berks Canal is no exception and has built excellent partnerships and solid foundations in its great efforts to restore this 67 mile long rural canal.
		With the recent announcement that the Wilts and Berks has recently been awarded a national Priority 2 restoration scheme, the canal is set to play its important part in enhancing the potential of the regional and national waterways for not only navigation, but also in delivering substantial economic, environmental and social benefits.
	www.northwilts.gov.uk /print/index/leisure/lt_parks_recreation-newpage/lt_parks_recreation-countryside-2/lt_parks_recreation-access_to_countryside/lt_parks_recreation-the_wilts_and_berks_canal.htm (356 words)

	Water carnival boosts restoration ambition - This Is Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CANAL enthusiasts are hoping to rekindle the success of bygone water carnivals on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Pewsey Wharf.
		The Wilts and Berks restoration today is at a similar stage to the Kennet and Avon 35 years ago when enthusiasts were scorned when they said the abandoned waterway would one day re-open.
		Some stretches of the Wilts and Berks Canal near Calne and Wootton Bassett are back in water and the long term plan is to re-open the whole canal, although new routes will have to be found for those sections in places like Melksham which have been built over.
	archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /2003/09/04/146824.html (671 words)

	www.ourwaywaterway.org - The Grove and Wantage Waterside Plan - The Alternative Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust volunteers have been restoring sections of canal for years, and are now seeing their long-held dream of a continuous waterway come to fruition.
		The Wilts & Berks, recently classified as a national top 20 scheme, is set to play its important part in enhancing the potential of the nation's waterways for not only navigation, but also in delivering substantial economic, environmental and social benefits to rural and urban communities.
		Canals are proven to be just the catalyst for economic and social regeneration in towns, cities and the countryside.
	www.ourwaywaterway.org /waterways.aspx (1517 words)

	News Article
		An Agreement of Friendship between the Wilts and Berks Canal Partnership and The Association des Canaux Bretons to formally twin the Nantes a Brest canal with the Wilts and Berks was signed in a historic meeting at Bowood House, near Calne.
		The Wilts and Berks Canal is being restored in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, and the Nantes a Brest Canal runs through the regions of Brittany and the Loire Atlantique, France.
		Cllr Doreen Darby, Partnership Chairman said, “This twinning with the Wilts and Berks Canal is a suitably strong symbol and a token of this lasting friendship between France and England.
	www.northwilts.gov.uk /print/index/news-article.htm?newsid=8721 (295 words)

	NarrowboatWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		THOUGH the Cotswold Canals are at present very much in the news, the Wilts and Berks Canal is of no lesser importance, connecting the Thames at Abingdon with the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, which would make a spectacular cruising ring.
		Renamed the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust, the group is concentrating on the political aspect of the restoration, working with the various councils and planning new routes around the obstructions.
		This is a rural regeneration project combining a key section of the Wilts and Berks Canal and the final section of the North Wiltshire Rivers Route, which is part of Route Four of the National Cycle Network.
	www.narrowboatworld.com /NBW__z-Wilts&Berks.htm (975 words)

	Wilts & Berks Canal Trust - West Vale Branch
		The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust (WandBCT) [formerly the Wilts and Berks Canal Amenity Group] was formed in 1977 to campaign for the canal's preservation - the aims have grown and the Trust is now actively restoring the canal.
		A branch, formerly known as the the North Wilts Canal, ran from Swindon to Cricklade on the
		Between Abingdon and Swindon the canal passes through the Vale of White Horse and this is the website of the Trust's West Vale Branch based in Shrivenham.
	www.westvalecanal.org.uk (363 words)

	Largey bargey - This Is Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The material was washed into the canal from a Thames Water outfall pipe about a year and a half ago, when the newly restored one-mile stretch of canal was filled with water.
		Wilts and Berks Canal Trust chairman Henry Smith, who was watching the action, explained that the barge would be manoeuvred by a tugboat as it is filled with silt by a dredger.
		The Wilts and Berks Canal was proposed in 1793 as a cheap way of transporting coal from Somerset to Swindon.
	archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /2002/03/27/192643.html (451 words)

	Wilts and Berks Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1809 the idea was advocated by the Wilts and Berks as the Western Junction Canal extension to to their navigation.
		Was a 9 mile, 12 lock, narrow canal from Swindon to Latton near Cricklade, where it joined the Thames and Severn Canal.
		Wilts and Berks Canal Page by Peter Smith : Details of the Restoration of the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Wilts-and-Berks-Canal.html (421 words)

	This is Wiltshire \| CommuniGate \| Canal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Wilts and Berks Canal was promoted from 1793 as a means of providing cheap transport of coal from Somerset, agricultural produce, and other local materials.
		The main canal was cut from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington(near Melksham) to the River Thames at Abingdon and was 52 miles long.
		It was incorporated into the Wilts and Berks Canal when a reservoir was built at Coate (Swindon) to supply the summit of the canal.
	www.communigate.co.uk /wilts/wiltsberkscanaltrust/page1.phtml (289 words)

	Historical Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As authorised by an act of 1795, the route was from the Kennett and Avon Canal at Semington, near Trowbridge to the Thames at Abingdon via Melksham, Dauntsey, Wotton Bassett and Swindon.
		Eventually the canal company was sold in 1874, and between then and 1906 when operations finally ceased it passed through the hands of several owners, who tried unsuccessfully to make it financially viable.
		The point at which the canal crosses the modern western boundary of Castlefields is marked by Chaveywell Bridge, which is constructed in red brick and contemporary with the original waterway construction.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /timpreece/historical.htm (689 words)

	House of Commons - Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs - Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence
		The installation of such schemes on those canals would transport fresh water (which would otherwise be lost to the sea) towards the south and east of England, an area which is currently short of water.
		Where a section of canal has been obstructed by development, HLF funds are not available for any diversion works necessary to link the sections on either side of the obstruction.
		Canal restoration bodies need sustained funding over a period, to enable them to work steadily, over that period, on all aspects of the restoration of a length of waterway.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmenvtra/317/317ap28.htm (1037 words)

	Canal Map Then
		The map shows the path of the canal as it reached its terminus in the middle of the town.
		The canal was used to transport salt, stone, building materials and foodstuffs, though mostly it carried coal.
		The canal in the town centre in 1900.
	www.st-nicholasvc.wilts.sch.uk /Learning/Then&Now/CanalThen/CanalMapThen.htm (204 words)

	Wilts & Berks Canal Trust - West Vale Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Photos of the canal from the days when it was still in use to its dereliction to its restoration.
		The entire length of the West Vale Branch's length of canal is on the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 Explorer 170 "Abingdon, Wantage and Vale of White Horse".
		Other sections of the canal are on the OS Explorers 156 and 170.
	www.westvalecanal.fsnet.co.uk /bibliography.htm (357 words)

	WILTSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on WILTSHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Close to Salisbury it is joined by the united streams of the Nadder and the \Vylye; by the Ebble, which drains the vale of Chalk; and by the Bourne, which flows south by west from its head near Ludgershall.
		These waterways were formerly connected by a branch of the Berks and Wilts Canal, which runs S.W. from Berkshire, through Swindon and Melksham, but was closed in 1899.
		Bokerlv Dyke, which forms a part of the boundary between Wilts ann Dorset, is the largest among several similar entrenchments, and has also a ditch north of the rampart.
	97.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILTSHIRE.htm (4948 words)

	Anniversary celebrates work on restoring the Wilts and Berks - This Is Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CANAL partners and national agencies met at a conference at Bowood to celebrate 25 years of achievements in the project to restore the Wilts and Berks Canal.
		The 67-mile Wilts and Berks Canal forms a vital link that has lain dormant for many years.
		Miles of canal is back in water and the Wilts and Berks Canal Partnership has been launched under the presidency of Lord Lans-downe.
	archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /2002/11/08/172848.html (241 words)

	SwindonLink.co.uk
		Work on rebuilding Beavans Bridge over the Wilts and Berks canal south of Swindon will be completed by mid-August, two hundred years after its was first built, bringing the dream of linking the town into a restored canal network a step closer.
		Thanks to a £360,000 National Heritage Lottery Fund grant to the Wilts and Berks Canal Amenity Group, a mile long stretch of canal has been dredged and towpath made from Kingshill to the bridge, and a further stretch will be dug out following the original route of the canal to the M4.
		The very long term plan is to link the Kennett and Avon canal at Melksham to the Thames north of Cricklade via the Wilts and Berks canal, past Wootton Bassett and Swindon.
	www.swindonlink.com /morenews/news200008/canalbridgew.html (428 words)

	Wilts and Berks Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wilts and Berks Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Wilts and Berks Canal is a (Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation) canal, originally in (Click link for more info and facts about Wiltshire) Wiltshire and (A county in southern England) Berkshire, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		The branch from Swindon to Cricklade linking there to the (Click link for more info and facts about Thames and Severn Canal) Thames and Severn Canal was opened in 1819 and known as the North Wilts Canal.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilts_and_berks_canal.htm (317 words)

	Wilts and Berks Canal \| Maritime \| Arup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arup advised the New Swindon Company on the feasibility and economics of reconstructing the Wilts and Berks Canal, which ran through the centre of Swindon until 1914.
		The canal will be used to promote the regeneration of Swindon, and will be routed to maximise the potential benefits to the town.
		Arup are also producing a feasibility study into the re-instatement of the Wilts and Berks canal where it joins with the River Thames at Abingdon.
	www.arup.com /maritime/project.cfm?pageid=2856 (161 words)

	Canal route plans - This Is Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Britain's canals and waterways are enjoying an extraordinary revival and the Wilts and Berks Canal is set to be in the next round of major funding for waterways restoration.
		The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust (formerly the Wilts and Berks Canal Amenity Group) has worked tirelessly for 30 years to prove it could, and should be restored.
		With six locks, seven bridges and two aqueducts already re-built and miles of canal back in water, as well as the formation of the Wilts and Berks Canal Partnership, it has now commissioned a major engineering study to determine the best canal route at Melksham.
	archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /2002/04/19/190452.html (384 words)

	Top Results - Saul Canal Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Annual event at Saul Junction, at the junction of the Gloucester Sharpness Canal and the Cotswold Canals.
		A registered charity committed to the restoration of the Wilts and Berks Canal, the central section of the Wessex Waterways Network.
		Campaign to re-open the canal between Lough Neagh and Lough Erne with news, history and map..
	www.top-results.co.uk /Saul_Canal_Festival.html (229 words)

	berks
		The Wilts & Berks Canal is the longest restoration project in the UK.
		wilts - berks - canal - wiltshire - trust - oxfordshire - restoration - community - waterways - charity -
		Berks On Bikes - a mountain bike club for all ages and abilities, based near Swinley Forest, Bracknell.
	www.eurohome.dk /search.php?lg=uk&p=berks (366 words)

	Wilts and Berks Canal - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Wilts and Berks Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wilts and Berks Canal - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Wilts and Berks Canal.
		Here you will find more informations about Wilts and Berks Canal.
		The orginal Wilts and Berks Canal article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Wilts-and-Berks-Canal.html (309 words)

	This is Wiltshire \| CommuniGate \| Home Page Wilts&Berks Canal Trust Swindon
		The Wilts and Berks canal trust aims to restore the canal as a through route from the River Thames to the Kennet and Avon canal and to restore the link to the Cotswold Canal (Thames and Severn)
		Swindon Branch of the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust will be returning to the North Wilts canal adjacent to Purton Road to start a 2 year project to complete the restoration of about a mile of canal.
		Initial works on this section including the digging of the canal bed have been completed for some time, but now it is intended to make this section into a fully working canal.
	www.communigate.co.uk /wilts/wiltsberkscanaltrust (447 words)

	Lackham Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wilts and Berks Canal, parts of which are currently under restoration.
		In 1997 the Wilts and Berks Canal Partnership was formed.
		the canal was economically viable and was environmentally and
	www.lackhamcountrypark.co.uk /c_lackhammuseum.htm (237 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)