You are invited to an evening exploring the Caldon and Uttoxeter Canals, past, present and future.
On Monday 16 June 2025. An illustrated talk by the Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust at Foxlowe Arts Centre, Stockwell Street, LEEK, ST13 6AD; doors open 7.10 pm.
Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust recently hosted the WRG North West regional group for a weekend of volunteering on the Uttoxeter Canal. A productive weekend was had on 1st and 2nd February, carrying out various types of vegetation clearance.
We had a very productive weekend of volunteering on the Uttoxeter Canal at the end of November, with volunteers from Waterway Recovery Group North West joining us to spend a couple of days working around Carrington's Lock and Bridge 70. The WRG volunteers had travelled from across the country for the event, and spent the weekend staying at Greatwood Hall in Tean. We also had a team from Canal & River Trust join us on the Saturday, to install a bench.
Huge thanks to the volunteers from Canal & River Trust who spent a day clearing Himalayan balsam along the Uttoxeter Canal towpath loop at Alton in June. They did a fantastic job. If you would be interested in getting involved in future work parties on the Uttoxeter Canal, please contact alison.smedley@cuct.org.uk
The Etruria Canal Festival held on 1st and 2nd June 2024 celebrated the 50th anniversary of the reopening of the Caldon Canal. As well as our usual information and fundraising stand, we also put on a 50th anniversary exhibition and “memories tent” – where many people came along with their stories of the restoration and other memories of the canal.
You are invited to an evening exploring the Caldon Canal, past, present and future.
On Monday 17 June 2024. An illustrated talk by the Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust at Foxlowe Arts Centre, Stockwell Street, LEEK, ST13 6AD; doors open 7.10 pm for:
At the beginning of March the Uttoxeter Canal had a visit from the WRG North West regional group. It was the first time that we had hosted a WRG visit since pre-Covid, and we were pleased to be able to return to using the excellent Greatwood Hall community centre in Tean for the accommodation. On site lots of useful vegetation clearance was carried out by a small band of keen and enthusiastic volunteers who had travelled from across the country for the weekend.
On Saturday 18th September a team of volunteers from Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust and IWA North Staffordshire & South Cheshire Branch were on hand at Crumpwood in Staffordshire, to talk to visitors during a self-guided walk along the Uttoxeter Canal between Alton and Denstone.
Good news - the planning application which would have blocked the future restoration of the Uttoxeter Canal at Froghall was unanimously rejected by SMDC's Planning Applications Committee this afternoon.
Rupert Smedley represented CUCT and IWA as one of the objectors speaking against the application, and there was a very robust recommendation for refusal by the planning officers.