Funding bid to extend Montgomery

A BID for funding is being made to the Heritage Lottery Fund in September to get cash to enable the Montgomery Canal to be extended.

The Montgomery Canal Partnership want to raise £4 millions to extend the waterway at Crickheath Wharf, with part of it going towards extending another area of the Aston Nature Reserve, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Next year

However, it will not be until next year that the partnership will know if the bid has been successful, but are hoping to secure the cash, with the extra restored length making the ambition to fully open the Montgomery from its junction with the Llangollen Canal to Newtown.

The new section would take the waterway to a winding hole at Crickheath, allowing boaters to then use the entire length of the restored section from the Llangollen Canal junction.

It was last year the latest section to be restored between Redwith and Pryce's Bridge allowed boats to travel further along the canal, after a six years project.