Stroud District councillors will vote on whether to apply for £6.5m in National Lottery funding and provide an extra £1.5m to finish restoring the canal network on Thursday. The move would restore the ...

Stroud canal lock restoration begins. Published. 22 July 2013. Canal through rubbish tip to open. Published. 10 May 2013. Related internet links. Stroud District Council. Cotswold Canals Trust.

A flotilla of canal boats took to the recently-restored canal at Stroud to celebrate the lottery funding. Credit: ITV West Country Cllr Doina Cornell, Leader of Stroud District Council, says it is ...

A £1.8m canal bridge in Stroud is expected to open by mid-June, engineers have said. The new A46 Merrywalks Bridge, which will allow boats to pass underneath, was due to be finished by November.

Think again. A planned restoration project of the region’s canals is set to make its waterways more accessible by bike; Tamara Hinson takes to the towpath on two wheels to find out more.

Restoration of the 240-year-old locks will take 15 weeks to complete Work has begun on the restoration of two 18th Century locks on the Cotswold Canals. Contractors have started work on the ...

About £5m of public money had been set aside for Brimscombe Port, which would also include canal-related tourism and employment uses. Chloe Turner, leader of Stroud District Council (SDC), said ...

At Stroud’s Cotswold Canals Trust visitor centre (which, by the way, is a goldmine of information), paintings of Stroud in the 1800s show vast swathes of scarlet cloth laid out to dry on the ...