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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the direction we walk from is is behind us here now the it doesn’t follow the canal all the way through it comes across some Fields it’s quite thick over there but it does drop back in and then you’ve got this section here now this here you can see there’s an old boundary fence here this is the old boundary fence from the school which runs along the side here and they move their fence across to the other side and now you’ve got the canal bed here now this canal bed runs all the way through and is largely untouched from The Cheney Manor industrial estate right up to kind of the edge of the power station where there’s a little Housing state which is almost on the main road uh where we were much earlier on so it’s quite a lot of canal here that could be restored and put into a nature area and this runs through a massive uh nature Coral basically all the way through here with the river Ray and uh various other things as well so it would be a massive asset to the to the town if this could be restored this is as far as we can go at the moment as you can see we’ve got the fence behind us