Cotswold Canals Camp – John Robinson Lock CC202304

Our latest contribution to the restoration and reopening of the Cotswold Canals will be to rebuild the part-demolished and largely buried Westfield Lock (now John Robinson Lock) and to reinstate the aqueduct/culvert carrying a stream under its top end. We're hoping to run three camps, with our friends in KESCRG and NWPG supporting two of them. Volunteers will be preparing the site ready for the restoration of the former Westfield Lock. Above the lock the canal must pass over Oldbury Brook. The brook needs to be channelled under the canal in pipes with inlet and outfall structures at either end. A section of the brook downstream of the canal needs to be regraded. Once those works are complete and the lock is protected from the brook then we will move on to restoring the lock walls.