Filling a Canal on The Cotswolds

Filling a Canal on The Cotswolds

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We have new canal! watch this area transform in one video as the area of the stroudwater Navigation, now known as the Cotswold Canals between Pike Locks and Pike Bridge and to Dock lock gets filled. What's happening on the first stage of the missing mile and whats the plan with Westfield lock and the restored John Robinson lock.This beautiful stretch of canal is the next stage of restoring this broad canal back through the cotswolds putting Stroud, Stonehouse and Whitminster back on the boating map.

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[stevem-yl]

I enjoy these types of vids, easy going, informative and interesting

[malcolmrichardson]

Thank's for very informatibve update. As you say, it's always good to see water in a canal and they've done a great re-profiling job on that section. Onwards - and upwards towards Saul Junction!

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[Gizepi]

Great video Stephen. Audio also great after the magic bit. Sometimes I wish there were canals in my part of the world but none are left.

[rogerclarke]

Superb video. seeing empty then full was cool; I would have loved to see the process. Thanks for sharing.

[hvee]

Nice one Steve, it’s great to see the canal restoration taking place, as you know it’s moved on even more over the last few months, small correction though, and it may just be an error in the voice over but this is Pike lock just before Pike bridge 3:38 and Dock lock itself is seen at 6:31 before John Robinson lock and bridge

[mikepowell]

Good to see what progress is being made. The canal’s dimensions were not useful just for the smaller throws. Clarke’s boatyard at Brimscombe built some fairly substantial steamboats, many for international clients, which were ‘extracted’ via the cut having been tested on the G&S canal.

[davidh]

Top class video Steve and great to see more progress being made with the Canal, thank you !

[beverleybutler]

Good news and brilliant to see the hard work gone into it all!👏

[billbasherbill]

Thank you for another informative video .

[tonycamplin]

A good start but lots left to do, hopefully it will be done soon. I was extremely surprised and shocked to hear that those lock gates needed replacing after only about 30 years. Surely the original canal lock gates lasted many times longer than that?

[davejones]

Great to see, but a slight loss of sense of proportion to say how careful have to be when repairing lock gates because of some moss growth; it's like saying have to be careful to re-lay a road because there's an eco system in the gutter. Don't get me wrong, I like to see the growth on gates etc. and think it a shame will be lost in the renovations, but unfortunately you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. If you've got to remove a bit of moss to re-point some brickwork, it's hardly the Amoco Cadiz.

[TheDalaiLamaCon]

I walk the Planekeepers Path along the old towpaths that brought sand for building from Summerleaze Beach at Bude to the top of Hobbacot incline.
I would love to be allowed to refill the old canal, I often get subversive impulses to drop a few bags of concrete in strategic locations, ....(hope I didn't type that out loud).

[Dave-dm]

Those habitats on the lock walls mentioned @ 11:00 are a serious issue. Leave them to grown and your wall falls down. Dig out the tenants and you destroy the habitat. Best bet is to build a proper job in the first place.

[-Eckhart]

What an excellent magic jump cut - some precision camera work required for that!

[KevDYAD]

WRG BitM (Bit in the Middle) are there this weekend.

[anthonywhitehouse]

Why dont the modernisation of these locks widen them to take wide beam boats . There is no future vision in the sence of the more that can use it will .

[Michael-lnus]

I thought the locks being made from such thick wood would have lasted longer than 30 years.
Maybe not

[petercrossley]

It’s not “on” the Cotswolds. It’s “in”.

[denisbassett]

Really interesting subject but the guy doesn’t enunciate and slurs terribly. I would have continued watching, but it’s just too much work trying to understand him.