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Press Release for Eastington News.   November 19th 2015


As we go to press, a car-load of documents was due to leave Eastington on a historic journey to the regional HQ of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Exeter.


There, the Cotswold Canals Trust and its partners were to deliver their final submission in the £15 million bid to restore the Stroudwater Navigation from Stonehouse to Saul.


An answer to the bid is expected next April. By this time, the first section of canal restoration from Brimscombe through Stroud is expected to be nearing completion.

If successful, development work on the new section would begin immediately, with a target date for the completed link to the national canal network within seven years.


Cotswold Canals Trust,

Bell House, Wallbridge Lock, Stroud Gloucestershire, GL5 3JS, Tel: 01453 752 568

Registered Charity no.: 0269721

Registered Office: Island House, Moor Road, Chesham, HP5 1NZ

Registered in England no.: 01

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