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The Light Craft Navigation project – an amazing success for The Trust
Read all about: the successful application for the Rural England Prosperity grant; the hard work of the volunteers; the versatile platform/pontoons for the benefit of the local and wider community. https://nwdct.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LCN-Website.231203.pdf...
Festive Boat Trips aboard “The Newun”
This festive season the trust is offering boat trips aboard "THE NEWUN", a replica wherry, from Dilham, and aboard "ELLA II" from Ebridge. For a boat trip aboard "THE NEWUN" call Graham on 07585 160 772
North Walsham Canal Archives
Some ten to fifteen years ago, the great canal historian, Alan Faulkner, also at the time a Director of the East Anglian Waterways Association, asked me to take on the job of Archivist of the EAWA's records of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal, a job which I was...
On this day 28th June 157 years ago
Another anniversary. It was 28th June 1866 when the North Walsham and Dilham Canal Act 1866 was passed into law. The Act amended the 1812 North Walsham and Dilham Canal Act. This new Act, primarily, permitted the sale or lease of the canal on the provision that 'no...
On this day 5th May 1812
Today Friday 5th May, is the 211th anniversary of the passing of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal Act of 1812. That Act of Parliament is a Local Act, which provides the canal owners with special dispensations and privileges above and beyond General Law. That much...
Enjoyable: Newun – the first wherry on the North Walsham and Dilham Canal for 100 years.
An excellent video of the NW&D canal along with the "Newun" quietly meandering the canal at Tonnage Bridge by YouTube recorder Andy Tidy View it and enjoy it via this link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fQ0_lJiyI