Restoration Update

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Restoration Update

Since the formation of IWA, over 60 years ago, more than 500 miles (800km) of unnavigable waterway have been brought back to navigable use.

Work continues to restore and bring back into use many more hundreds of miles of canal and river waterways. The following links show  restoration projects currently in progress.

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Ashby Canal
Ashton Canal – Hollinwood and Stockport Branches (Under Restoration)
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Barnsley and Dearne & Dove Canals (Under Restoration)
Bedford to Grand Union Link (Under Restoration)
Bow Back Rivers (Under Restoration)
Bradford Canal (Under Restoration)
Bridgewater Canal – Runcorn Locks (Under Restoration)
Buckingham Arm (Under Restoration)
Bude Canal (Under Restoration)
Bugsworth Basin (Under Restoration)
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Caldon & Uttoxeter Canal (Under Restoration) 
Cambridgeshire Lodes (Under Restoration)
Chard Canal (Under Restoration)
Chelmer Navigation Extension (Under Restoration)
Chesterfield CanalChesterfield Canal (Under Restoration)
Chichester Canal (Under Restoration)
Cromford Canal (Under Restoration)
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Daventry Canal Arm (Under Restoration)
Derby Canal (Under Restoration)
Dorset & Somerset Canal (Under Restoration)
Driffield Navigation (Under Restoration)
Droitwich Canals (Under Restoration)
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Forth & Clyde Canal - Glasgow Arm (Under Restoration)
Foxton Inclined Plane (Under Restoration)
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Grand Western Canal (Under Restoration)
Grantham Canal (Under Restoration)
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Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal (Under Restoration)
Horncastle Navigation (Under Restoration)
Ipswich & Stowmarket Navigation (Under Restoration)
Itchen Navigation (Under Restoration)
Ivel, River (Under Restoration)

Kings Lynn to the Great Ouse Flood Relief Channel Link, River (Under Restoration)

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Lagan Navigation (Under Restoration) - Northern Ireland 
Lancaster Canal Northern Reaches (Under Restoration)

Lapal Canal (Under Restoration)
Leominster Canal(Under Restoration)
Leven Navigation, River (Northern Ireland) - (Under Restoration)
Lichfield and Hatherton Canals (Under Restoration)
Little Ouse Navigation (Under Restoration)
Liverpool Waterfront (Under Restoration)
Louth Navigation (Under Restoration)
Lydney Harbour (Under Restoration)
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Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal (Under Restoration)
Melton Mowbray Navigation and Oakham Canal (Under Restoration)
Monmouthshire Canal (Under Restoration)
Montgomery Canal (Under Restoration)
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Neath and Tennant canals (Under Restoration)
North Walsham & Dilham Canal (Under Restoration)
North Wilts Canal (Under Restoration)
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Pocklington Canal (Under Restoration)
Portsmouth & Arundel Canal (Under Restoration)
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Rolle Canal (Under Restoration)
Rother Link (Under Restoration)
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Sankey Canal (Under Restoration)
Severn Navigation (above Stourport) - (Under Restoration)
Shrewsbury & Newport Canal (Under Restoration)
Sleaford Navigation / Kyme Eau (Under Restoration)
Somersetshire Coal Canal (Under Restoration)
Staffs & Worcs Canal - Stafford Branch (Under Restoration)
Stour Navigation (Essex) - (Under Restoration)
Stourbridge Canal - Fens Branch (Under Restoration)
Stover Canal (Under Restoration)
Stroudwater Navigation (Under Restoration) (AKA Cotswold Canal )
Sussex Ouse (Under Restoration)
Swansea Canal (Under Restoration)
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Thames & Medway Canal (Under Restoration)
Thames & Severn Canal (Under Restoration) (AKA Cotswold Canal) 
The Fens Waterways Link (including South Forty Foot River) - (Under Restoration)
Trent & Mersey Canal – Burslem Arm (Under Restoration)
Tyne, River (Under Restoration)
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Ulster Canal (Ireland) - (Under Restoration)
Upper Avon Extension (Under Construction)
Uttoxeter Canal (Under Restoration)
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Weaver – Frodsham Cut, River (Under Restoration)
Wendover Arm (Under Restoration)
Wey & Arun Canal (Under Restoration)
Whitchurch Arm (Under Restoration)
Wilts & Berks Canal (Under Restoration)
Wissey, River (Under Restoration)
Witham Navigable Drains (East Fen Lock) - (Under Restoration)
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Navigations threatenened with Closure but saved by successful campaign

Navigation where full restoration is not planned



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Jubilee Junction - the transformation in 2006!

IWA Wilts & Berks Jubilee Link

At the beginning of 2006, IWA announced a grant of about £60,000 to celebrate its diamond jubilee year in 2006 as a major funder for the construction of a new length of waterway to connect the Wilts & Berks Canal canal to the Thames near Abingdon. The work was carried out by Canal Trust, a contractor and WRG volunteers and was opened during the week following IWA’s National Festival at Beale Park on the Thames in late August 2006.

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