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Cheshire's River Weaver gets Heritage Boost
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Cheshire's River Weaver gets Heritage Boost
Location: Cheshire
Ocotber 2002
The history of the River Weaver is being explored after securing LHI funding.
The river was first made navigable in 1732 by the Weaver Navigation Trust, driven by the need to ship salt from the thriving Weaver Valley salt industry to Liverpool.
With the aid of £8,000 LHI funding, the project aims to search archive information to find out how many land boundary and mile navigation posts there were, their location, how many still exist and, through exhibitions and leaflets, raise awareness of their significance to the local people in the area.
Susannah England, the Countryside Agency's Local Heritage Initiative Adviser for the North West, said: “Many of the boundary and mile marker posts have been lost through erosion of the river banks or changing agricultural use of the area and this project will be a real chance to document them through research and a site survey. The previously underused River Weaver is already enjoying a new lease of life through the restored Anderton Boat Lift connecting it with The Trent and Mersey canal and this project will help further by highlighting the importance of this stretch of waterway and its history. All of the group’s discoveries will be turned into an exhibition which will be available to thousands of local people in Winsford, Northwich, Frodsham and Acton Bridge.”
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