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Swindon’s Lost Locks | North Wilts Canal | Wilts and Berks

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A look at the Moredon and Mouldon Locks on the old North Wilts canal which became part of the Wilts and Berks canal. The North Wilts ran from the junction in the centre of Swindon to Lawton Basin at Cricklade on the Cotswold Canals.

Walking from Mouldon hill country park we first visit the Moredon aqueduct before walking south towards the town of Swindon and onto Mouldon Lock, Moredon Bridge and then the two locks at Moredon. How did the power station and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway affect the canal? Now the Swindon and Cricklade railway it runs through a similar course and is both a heritage railway and a cycle path in the town.

We follow the country park until we hit the Cheney Manor Industrial estate which still has a section of canal in water. The rest of the route can be seen on various videos on the channel.

The mapping that can be seen is the fantastic memory maps with the waterway route maps overlaid, all done automatically when you download both.

WBCT Youtube – @wiltsberkscanaltrust

WBCT – https://www.wbct.org.uk

Swindon and Cricklade Railway – https://swindon-cricklade-railway.org

Rail Map Online – https://www.railmaponline.com

Waterway Routes – https://www.waterwayroutes.co.uk

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All camera footage shot with an Insta360 One Inch with Rode Go mic and Lavalier.

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About 2008 the BBC funded uh the Canal Trust to put a walk through from Pon Road Bridge up to what’s now going to be the brand new Sports Hub the M Field Sports Center there a lot of the undergrowth has grown over and sadly due to you know volunteer

Time and resources the path has gone into a bit of a disrepair they put the walk from one point to the other so it crosses some Fields with not actually topar but what we’re do going forward is we’re doing ecolog iCal survey of the area and we’re try and get this walk

Reinstated but much closer to the original top as we can