A new canal in abingdon

[PIKE AND PERCH HUNTER]

there is a new canal in abingdon that looks quite fishy. it has been there for a few months ,i know there are some perch there now but would there be any carp there? or any tench or bream ?

 

[Morespiders]

Who put it there?, and how much was it?

 

[Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)]

I didn't realise that the people in charge still built new canals what with roads and that.

Did it just spring up over night? Did anyone notice a big gang of navvies digging....and digging ...and digging...............

12 months later

...and digging.

Phew! "Right lads, phase two. Get the buckets"

 

[Morespiders]

Your a sarcastic bugger Mr Corker.

 

[Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)]

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[PIKE AND PERCH HUNTER]

NEW WILTS AND BERKS CANAL

 

[Morespiders]

Er...Er..... sorry Mr Pikeperch, that will teach me to be sarcastic.

Mr Corker, apology required.

 

[Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)]

Er...please accept my apologies Mr Hunter.

Seriously though, I didn't realise they still built canals. What is the new canal for?

 

[Morespiders]

Fishing you silly bugger!.

Or a link to another canal or into the Thames?

Tell us Mr Pike

 

[Specihunter]

i will ask someone i know who lives there and there are plans to buid or dig a flood relief channel around oxford .

 

[PIKE AND PERCH HUNTER]

ALL I KNOW is that it joins the thames to another river or something near bristol

 

[Specihunter]

where does join the thames, and don't say abingdon. As i can't find it on google maps.

 

[Mark Wintle]

The original Wilts and Berks went west from Abingdon and there were a few traces around Wantage - still shown on Ordnance Survey maps. Don't know where it went after that. Google can be quiteout of date; one place i walk has a sizeable lake that is just workings in one corner onGoogle earth.

I thought a massive reservoir was planned just to the west of Abingdon? maybe this is a feed to that?

 

[Specihunter]

i know there's talk of a thames severn canal but this may act as a flood relief for abingdon.

 

[Mark Wintle]

Wilts and Berks Canal restoration

Looks like they're restoring it alright. It goes from Abingdon to Swindon.

The Thames Severn canal left the Thames above Lechlade.

 

[Specihunter]

i thought it might i read that it may be on hold due to BW lack of money.

 

[PIKE AND PERCH HUNTER]

its not even fully built yet. it runs from abingdon near a gravel pit but i dont know where it leads.

 

[Paul (Brummie) Williams]

Speci....there is a Thames/Severn canal...........or at least the remnants of said canal.

There are a host of lost waterways.

 

[Specihunter]

there is a plan to re-open the canal but british waterways has pulled out.