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Birtley Album
The Wey & Arun Canal Trust has acquired a 900-metre stretch of abandoned canal at Birtley Reach, near Bramley in Surrey, at the Northern end of the canal.
The Trust is planning to create a new circular canalside walk in this particularly stunning part of the countryside, where the walk will be flanked by the Downs Link path above and Cranleigh Waters in the valley below.
Visiting working parties and volunteers have fenced off the adjacent farmland and created an access track, along with tackling fallen trees and overgrown vegetation.
The project includes the construction of a lift bridge, for which planning permission is now awaited.
 Fencing has had to be erected along both sides of the canal.
Credits: Gill Davies - 30 May 2019 |
 Visiting working parties have been making regular visits.
Credits: Gill Davies - 30 May 2019 |
 Heavy machinery was used to level and surface the track.
Credits: Julian Morgan - 30 May 2019 |
 A temporary spill weir was created at the end of May.
Credits: Gill Davies - 30 May 2019 |
 The access road surfaced ahead of the bridge building later this summer.
Credits: Gill Davies - 30 May 2019 |
 A temporary scaffold bridge was built to make transporting tools needed for the new lift bridge much easier.
Credits: Gill Davies - 30 May 2019 |
 Birtley Path Construction
Credits: Julian Nowell - 9 February 2019 |
 Birtley path construction work
Credits: Julian Nowell - 20 January 2019 |