Gallery – Photographs, Projects & Papers – Friends of the Gumstool Brook

The Barton Mill Pound Bridge gets a paint make-over by John Tiffney & Andy Sworn
14th June 20205 – photo George Brookes

Wildlife – Although water levels are low in BMP, there was plenty of nature on view today Wednesday 11th June 2025
Egret in a tree & for a YouTube of ducklings with their mother
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WATERWAYS OF CIRENCESTER – Presentation given to Cirencester Civic Society
Monday 19th May 2025 by Dr Mike Jones

River Dan & Gumstool Brook
Flood and Drought including suggested remedies
by Lee Evans

Gloucestershire Wildlfe Trust
Views sought over beaver re-introduction

CIRENCESTER WILDLIFE GROUP – Rivers’ Report November 2024

Gloucester Street Sluices – cleaning & painting – work undertaken by Friends of the Gumstool Brook volunteers in co-operation with Cirencester Town Council- CLICK HERE

The Upper Coln Restoration Group – a presentation by Harvey Sherwood
posted July 2024 – Click Here

All on a Summer’s day … June 2024

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NEW VIDEO OF INTERIOR OF CIRENCESTER TOWN CULVERT
(Thomas Street to Abbey Grounds)
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GLOUCESTER STREET SLUICES
Integral to Memorandum of Understanding
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Managing water feeds to the Gumstool Brook riverside and Abbey Grounds complex
August 2023 – Click here

Daglingworth Stream Sink – Photographs 15th October 2023

River Maintenance Days 10th & 11th October 2023
Photos click here to view

Looking for the ‘Missing’ Daglingworth Brook
Assessment – photographs & map September 2023
By Andy Sworn
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THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING DAGLINGWORTH STREAM
Read more at this link: CLICK HERE

The Daglingworth Stream – assessment after a very dry summer
despite several weeks of rain in November 2022 our waterways are still seriously depleted
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January 2023 – The River Thames flowing from the source – YouTube – click here

Sadly 2022 is well on the way to repeating 2015 CLICK HERE FOR August 2022 photograph

THE BARTON MILL POUND 2015

We want to avoid more summers like this.

Remedial work undertaken Summer 2022
– (Leak fixed awaiting verification when water levels rise)
Good news August 2022, remedial action has been taken using the temporary drying out of the Millpound bed, new sandbag seals have been fitted. CLICK HERE

As above Remedial work urgently required for Summer 2022
The work undertaken in 2018 to release flood overflow water from the Barton Millpound Stream to the former Swan Lake is in urgent need of repair and improvement to remove a significant leak from a level near the base of Millpound and to provide a sluice gate to control high water flow. CLICK HERE

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The great drought of summer 2022 has claimed a victim in the complete loss of water
in the Gumstool in the Abbey Grounds (August 2022)
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THE DAGLINGWORTH STREAM CULVERT – A pictorial assessment
and suggested true route
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Bomford Cottage on the River Churn for almost two centuries – some interesting observations about flooding by the owner and occupant, William Cooper.
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December 2020 flooding, Riverside Walk – photographs by Simone Clark
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A survey of the WATERWAYS passing through the Town
with Special reference to the GREAT FLOOD of 1929
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