Welsh waterway festivals
The Maesbury Canal Festival is to be held on the 6th and 7th of September 2014, with the Montgomery Canal Triathlon on 10th May 2014.
Every other year
The Festival, organised by members of the Friends of the Montgomery Canal and Shrewsbury, District and North Wales branch of the Inland Waterways Association is held every other year. Like the three previous festivals, the event will take place at Canal Central, Maesbury.
Maesbury Canal Festival offers a range of entertainments and activities for visitors and boaters. There are also limited facilities for camping and caravanning on the site. The organising committee welcomes applications from boaters and exhibitors.
Ten years
A spokesman for the organisers explained:
"The Maesbury Canal Festival has become a popular part of the boating year, and is always fully booked. It is ten years since the canal was reopened to Maesbury and our event is a great way to show what bringing back the boats can mean to a village like this.
"As usual, we will be supporting the Festival by the annual Montgomery Canal Triathlon in May. This too has become a very popular event, with cycling from the end of the canal at Newtown, canoeing from Welshpool and the final walk from Llanymynech to Welsh Frankton."
Next year will be very busy for the Montgomery Canal. Volunteers from the Shropshire Union Canal Society are finishing the restoration of the canal to Pryce's Bridge, and it is hoped that the Heritage Lottery Fund will be approving the project to extend navigation to Crickheath Wharf, the next place where boats can turn.
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