The Ashby Canal Trust is a

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based at

Measham Measham is a large village in the North West Leicestershire district in Leicestershire, England, near the Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire boundaries. It lies off the A42, 4½ miles (7.25 km) south of Ashby de la Zouch, in the Natio ...

, Swadlincote, Leicestershire,

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, UK, and concerned with the

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of a part of the Ashby Canal, also known as the

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a long canal in England which connected the mining district around Moira, just outside the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth in Warwickshire. It was opened in 1804, a ...

. The restoration project is funded by: *

Leicestershire County Council Leicestershire County Council is the county council for the English non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire. It was originally formed in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888. The county is divided into 52 electoral divisions, which return a to ...

* Ashby Canal Association *Ashby Canal Trust and Ashby Canal Trust Supporters *

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Inland Waterways Association The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and was formed in 1946 to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British Canals and river navigations. No ...

Development Trust * National Forest Company Since 2009, the

has held an annual National Trailboat Festival on the restored length of the Ashby Canal at Moira, at the most northern end of the canal in Leicestershire. The

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allocated the Festival there to "showcase the work carried out by the Ashby Canal Trust and raise awareness for the continuing restoration".

External links

UK Government, House of Commons Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Memorandum submitted by Ashby Canal Trust, February 2008: "Canals cannot be restored on voluntary effort alone"BBC Breathing Places: Ashby Canal, Moira - Volunteering with Ashby Canal Trust
* ttp://measham.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/ashbycanaltrust.html Leicestershire Parish Councils website: listing Ashby Canal Trust
British Waterways' leisure website "Waterscape": page on Inland Waterways Association's National Trailboat Festival 2009, showcasing the restoration of the northern section of the canal"Wild Over Waterways" Information Pack, teaching resource about the Ashby Canal restoration (pdf)Ashby Canal Trust website
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