Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project announce new free guided walks for 2024

chris.harby@iliffepublishing.co.uk

Published: 06:00, 18 February 2024

A charity aiming to revitalise a former town canal into a ‘green corridor’ have announced two new series of guided walks for 2024.

The Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project have new guided nature and bat walks to their popular history walks for the 2024 season.

Paul Dadford leads the history walks, which are full of anecdotes and information about the canal and get under way on Tuesday, May 21.

Oakham Canal opened in 1802 but closed just 45 years later to make way for the new Syston and Peterborough railway

The nature walks take place on Saturday, June 15, Saturday, July 6 and Sunday, July 21, while the first of four evening bat walks is on Saturday, April 20.

Both walks are led by trained ecologist Max Devere-Summers.

Walks are free, but donations are invited to help the group continue its regeneration of the canal environment.

You can listen to bats using detectors on the new guided canal walks. Credit: St George's Trust for Conservation

There is an option to donate when tickets are booked at www.tickettailor.com/events/oakhamcanalgreencorridorproject/ where full details of all walks can be found.

A self-guided walk leaflet is also available to download at www.oakhamcanal.org/_files/ugd/b21873_eb72575af3a543788c9c473ab0e708a4.pdf

The project was set up to preserve and restore the old Oakham Canal and aims to provide around two-and-a-half miles of footpaths between the Springfield Estate to the Oakham Enterprise Park.

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