Swindon’s Lost Locks | North Wilts Canal | Wilts and Berks
Full Video – https://youtu.be/Lw9uXBTjal4
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
All drone footage shot with a DJI mini 3 Pro.
All camera footage shot with an Insta360 One Inch with Rode Go mic and Lavalier.
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the plan is we we’ll come up alongside Haz null and then we’ll turn and we’ll come south of crade and we’ll have to build a fresh Aqueduct to go over the temps yeah and then we connect up with the CW worlds under the 419 so the old side used to go over two aqueducts one over the temps and the other river which I can’t remember what it’s called then you had Latin Basin then you actually had another siphon um there which went up into the junction of the Coto Canal so the new Junction will be sort of further down the canal