Cotswold Canals Connected Canal and River Frome INNS Control The Cotswold Canals Connected (CCC) project aims to link up the Stroudwater canal from Stonehouse to Saul Junction. Alongside restoration of the canal itself the project has the potential to make a significant contribution to biodiversity by providing new habitats, and by re-forming an important link […]
Category: Environment
Restore the canal with us!
Drop-in volunteering on the first Sunday of each month from 9.30am to 3.30pm. Next few dates: 2nd June, 7th July, 4th August. Meet outside Bond’s Mill Gatehouse, Bond’s Mill Business Estate, Bristol Road, Stonehouse, GL10 3RF. Park adjacent to the building. These are informal volunteering sessions focusing on vegetation management and towpath repairs/construction in the […]
Watch out for Giant Hogweed
Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) is an invasive weed which is really dangerous. The early warm weather has provided perfect conditions for it to thrive, and specimens have been seen in Glocestershire, mainly along the banks of waterways. It looks a bit like cow parsley, but is much bigger – it can grow up to several […]
Frome River Restoration Project (paleo channel)
The Severn Rivers Trust in partnership with six other organisations, are working towards increasing fish migration access across impassable barriers to migration and to improve the habitat beyond these barriers. The River Frome is a critical watercourse for the endangered European eel. Historically salmon and sea trout used to migrate up through Stroud and they […]
Chipmans Platt Roundabout
Chipmans Platt Roundabout and A419 road works – an update from the contractors, Knights Brown. Works are progressing well on phase one of the A419 Highway Improvement Scheme at Chipmans Platt. We have been busy working at night to try and ensure we cause minimal disruption to the road network. If it looks quiet during […]
Love Toads – carefully
A Warning from the RSPCA As much as we love our wildlife, including these knobbly friends, please be aware that toadspawn can be poisonous to dogs. Do not let your dog swim in water where toadspawn can be seen, or to eat it. Toadspawn is easily recognised as the eggs are contained in long strings […]
Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue
Registered Charity 1168800 01452 740684 or 07949 976717 Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue Old Bakery Cottage, The Street Frampton on Severn GL2 7EA wildhogshedgehogrescue@gmail.com Hello from Wild Hogs. Well, we’re into April and our local hedgehogs will be out of hibernation getting on with their lives. We’ve overwintered quite a few in the hospital and will […]
Chipmans Platt Roundabout
What’s all the fuss at the Shell Garage Roundabout at Chipmans Platt ? For several years now, Gloucester County Council (GCC) have been planning £4 million-worth of improvements – to our roundabout, to the Oldends Lane and Horse-trough roundabouts and to the traffic lights at Bridgend, all on the A 419. There have been plenty […]
Cotswold Canals Connected
The Canal is a fantastic resource, and the restoration will benefit us all. Come along and see:- Construction Talk, Thursday 4 April, 7.30pm. Motorways, train lines & the missing mile – hear the engineering challenges from Ken Burgin, CCT CEO & scheme architect. George Room, The Sub Rooms, Stroud. Fully accessible. Meet the Volunteers, Thursday […]
Getting ‘otter
Spotted in the river close to Millend Mill and caught on camera by Mark Jones – (See the video on facebook Love Eastington!)
Happy Birthday the Phonebox
Amazingly, it is just about a year since the phone box opened its doors to all you avid readers out there – the young, the very young and the less young. – And it still looks as good today as it did then – So a very huge thank you to everyone who has contributed, […]
The Big Butterfly Count
Can you tell a Red Admiral, Comma, Tortoiseshell from a Peacock or a Painted Lady? Butterflies react very quickly to changes in their environment which makes them excellent biodiversity indicators. Butterfly declines are an early warning for other wildlife losses. That’s why counting butterflies can be described as taking the pulse of nature. The big […]
Next Phase of Canal Restoration gets the Green Light
Stroud District Council and Cotswold Canals Trust have received backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), for the restoration of the canal between Stonehouse and Saul junction, including the ‘missing mile’ at Eastington. The HLF picked ‘Stroudwater Navigation Connected’ as one of just four projects across the country for development funding and the £842,000 announced […]
Cotswold Canal Trust
Heritage Lottery Fund Bid On the 30th November last year, a bid was submitted to the Heritage Lottery fund for £9.8 million towards restoring the canal between Stonehouse and Saul Junction. The project known as Stroudwater Navigation Connected, will cost a total of £23.4 million, including volunteer input. The bid, led by Stroud District Council, […]
Chipmans Platt Roundabout
Val Taylor has long been a champion of Chipmans Platt roundabout (what most of us probably still know as the Little Chef roundabout), and has catalogued and photographed nearly 100 different species of wild flowers and grasses to be found on that one little island. The full list can be seen here (pdf file) , and […]
News from PROWD
I’m pleased to say that PROWD (Public Rights of Way Defenders) has been awarded monies from local Funding, so, I hope to be able to start ordering more kissing gates in the near future. Obviously it all depends on weather conditions as to when they can be installed. Good walking during the Winter months. Best […]
Eastington Phone box
It is really good to see so many of you enjoying the phone box book-swap library – and a big thank you to everyone for helping to keep it tidy and well stocked. (Please don’t overstock it, though -…
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