The next phase of the Wilts & Berks Canal will include a road bridge, connecting Wichelstowe to the M4 motorway.

The next phase of the Wilts & Berks Canal will include a road bridge, connecting Wichelstowe to the M4 motorway.

The trust believes the canal could become a valuable community asset and part of a wider green and wildlife corridor across ...

A new stretch of a canal built last autumn in Swindon is "holding water well", with more development starting. Work has restarted to extend part of the inland waterway at Middle Wichel to as far as ...

Peggy-Sue Ford, branch secretary, said that they want to get the Swindon section of the canal approved to go back into the town centre, to Wharf Green, where it used to flow.

Watch yet more vintage cine footage of Swindon, this time showing Old Town in the 1960s, the opening of Queens Park in 1953 and the long-since closed canal.

The canal's trust wants a through-route from Westleaze on one side of the town to Moulden Hill on the other. Forward Swindon said plans were "still in draft" and would be "re-worked in response to ...