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Aston Nature Reserve Survey

Have you visited the Aston Nature Reserve? The Aston Nature Reserve is an extensive facility on the Montgomery Canal near Oswestry. It is part funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund grant that is helping […]

June 2022 work party report

June 3-5 and 17-19 Volunteer effort during June focused on two main tasks. Lining and blocking operations really got into gear with a new record to report. Also the shaping of the last 50m of […]

May 2022 work party report

May 6-8 and 20-22 The big news this month is that lining/blocking has started in the Phase 2 channel and that the channel is final shaped all the way from the end of Phase 1 […]

April 2022 work party report

The two big challenges on the restoration this year were always going to be disposal of accumulated water around the site and forming and shaping earthworks in potentially soggy ground. Thus at the start of […]

Helen Morgan MP Visits Site

Helen Morgan, M.P. for North Shropshire, recently made a fact-finding visit to the Society’s current restoration site on the Montgomery Canal near Crickheath. Also visiting was Councillor Roy Aldcroft, Deputy Portfolio Holder – Communities, Culture, […]

January & February 2022 work party report

The Society tackled jobs in various locations over the winter – the common theme of them being that they were preparation for future planned restoration works. The main centre of activity was the Crickheath to […]

December 2021 work party report

The final restoration work party of the year was, compared to some of what had gone before, a rather low key event. A day and a half of effort ticked off a variety of jobs. […]

Water-filled containers in place (left) and bank shaping prior to the placing of more containers (right)

Montgomery Canal project at Crickheath wins prestigeous national award

At the 2021 Ground Engineering Awards ceremony in London on November 23, the Montgomery Canal restoration project won the Community Engagement Award. The winner came from a shortlist which included a section of the HS2 project and three […]

November 2021 work party report

It seems that the society is indebted to the Gulf Stream once more. In a month in which we required dry weather to complete the outstanding earthworks we got just that courtesy of our ally […]

October 2021 work party report

The six days of volunteer effort during October markedly changed the appearance of much of the site. This was partly due to the annual vegetation bash, but also because after months of work the section between […]