Reconnecting the Wooler Water - Heritage Trail
GLHS has committed to produce a walk leaflet and information boards for a Heritage Trail around what is destined to become a restored floodplain along Wooler Water between Coldgate Mill & Haugh Head. This is part of a conservation programme called "Reconnecting Wooler Water", which aims to improve the river and surrounding natural environment.
We have committed to extend our range of Walks in & around Wooler leaflets, and design information boards for the trail. Naturally one focus will be local history: the railway route and the gravel extraction industry which was largely the cause of the loss of the original floodplain and eventually caused flood waters to undercut the railway embankments in 1958 and 1959. We will also look back further to the water mills which were an essential part of rural life.
Other information boards will include the flora, fauna, geology, countryside code and the river management project. The Glendale Gateway Trust is planning a program of year-round themed walks, including one on the history of the project area.
Site construction work was planned for 2022, but has been put back a year so we have a breathing space in what otherwise would have been a rather tight schedule!
Pam Ratcliffe, Jim Bird and Alan Sture from the society are involved in making it happen, and would welcome your involvement in our role on this community project.
There is much information available on the Reconnecting Wooler Water project and the links below might help you to further understand what’s involved.
https://tweedforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20_02501_FULES-NON_TECHNICAL_SUMMARY_FINAL-16.pdf
https://tweedforum.org/our-work/projects/reconnecting-the-wooler-water/
https://www.glendalegatewaytrust.org/projects
We have committed to extend our range of Walks in & around Wooler leaflets, and design information boards for the trail. Naturally one focus will be local history: the railway route and the gravel extraction industry which was largely the cause of the loss of the original floodplain and eventually caused flood waters to undercut the railway embankments in 1958 and 1959. We will also look back further to the water mills which were an essential part of rural life.
Other information boards will include the flora, fauna, geology, countryside code and the river management project. The Glendale Gateway Trust is planning a program of year-round themed walks, including one on the history of the project area.
Site construction work was planned for 2022, but has been put back a year so we have a breathing space in what otherwise would have been a rather tight schedule!
Pam Ratcliffe, Jim Bird and Alan Sture from the society are involved in making it happen, and would welcome your involvement in our role on this community project.
There is much information available on the Reconnecting Wooler Water project and the links below might help you to further understand what’s involved.
https://tweedforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20_02501_FULES-NON_TECHNICAL_SUMMARY_FINAL-16.pdf
https://tweedforum.org/our-work/projects/reconnecting-the-wooler-water/
https://www.glendalegatewaytrust.org/projects
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To view a photo of each of the areas of importance, just click on the underlined name below: Yearle Mill Signal Box Haugh Head Ford Railway Embankment Gravel Extraction, Loading Railway Cottage Showground Colgate Mill Colegate Ford |
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The following are additional photos and maps associated with the project:
