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River pollution caused by misconnections

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Northcote Nature Reserve July 2024

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Mereway Fish Pass

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Avenue Park in spring April 2024

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Crane Valley Video Diary 2023

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Crane Valley Video Diary 2024

This video is a short montage of miscellaneous clips collected in 2024 at various riverside sites in the Crane Valley in West London. It captures the changing seasons and environmental conditions in an urban river catchment where the river system is a thread that links a network of green spaces.
The video also showcases several projects delivered by CVP partners/stakeholders, including the newly operational fish pass at Mereway Road weir, Northcote Nature Reserve (which was formally opened in 2024) on the Tidal Crane and the Lower Crane river enhancement pilot site in Twickenham.

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Lower Crane pilot project

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This short video showcases some river enhancement works at a site on the River Crane in the Twickenham area of west London. The river here (and indeed elsewhere on the Lower Crane) has been heavily modifed over many years and its natural form and function have been compromised as a result. The Lower River Crane Restoration Strategy seeks to renaturalise the river at various places along the Low...

River pollution caused by misconnections

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River pollution caused by misconnections

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This short video highlights the problem of river pollution caused by domestic misconnections. If washing machines, dishwashers, sinks or toilets are inadvertently misconnected to a rainwater drain rather than the foul sewer, the dirty water is likey to end up in a local stream or river and cause pollution. Misconnections are thought to be behind much of the sewage contamination in the Crane Val...

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Northcote Nature Reserve July 2024

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This contemplative video showcases the beauty of Northcore Nature Reserve, located alongside the tidal Crane in Isleworth, west London. The nature reserve was previously an inconspicuous and under-utilised amenity area known as Northcote Recreation Ground or Pit Park. A local community group - the Friends of Northcote Nature Reserve - worked with Astronaut Kawada Architects and the landowner Lo...

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Mereway Fish Pass

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Mereway Road Weir is located on the River Crane at Kneller Gardens in Twickenham, west London. The weir provides vital river flow control, helping to protect local properties from flooding, but unfortunately it acts as a barrier for fish swimming upstream. The fish pass - which became operational in June 2024 - allows fish to overcome this man made obstacle. The pass was constructed by the Envi...

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Avenue Park in spring April 2024

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This video takes the viewer on a quick our of Avenue Park, a large riverside public open space in Cranford in the London Borough of Hounslow. Here the River Crane forms a borough boundary. Avenue Park is on the eastern side of the river and neightbouring Cranford Park (in London Borough of Hillingdon) is on the western side. (The video actually starts in Cranford Park, at a metal bridge which c...

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Crane Valley Video Diary 2023

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This video diary is a short montage of miscellaneous clips collected during 2023 at various sites in the Crane Valley in West London. It captures the changing seasons and environmental conditions in this urban river catchment where the river system is a thread that links a network of green spaces. The video also showcases several enhancement projects undertaken by CVP Partners, including the re...

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Hatton Fields in summer August 2023

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This video features Hatton Fields, a riverside open space area in Feltham on Heathrow Airport's doorstep. The historic Upper Duke of Northumberland's River flows along the southern edge of Hatton Fields. The video starts at the Richmond Avenue footbridge and then takes the viewer on a journey in an easterly direction through Hatton Fields to the A312 Faggs Road bridge. It only covers the southe...

Yeading Brook at Ten Acre Wood and Golden Bridge July 2023

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Yeading Brook at Ten Acre Wood and Golden Bridge July 2023

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This contemplative video showcases the Yeading Brook at Ten Acre Wood, one of six London Wildlife Trust nature reserves in the Crane Valley. Ten Acre Wood is on the Hillingdon Trail and lies just downstream of where the two seperate branches of the Yeading Brook join to form a single watercourse which ultimately becomes the River Crane in the reach between Minet Country Park and Cranford Park t...

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habitat enhancements River Crane

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Filmed at the beginning of June 2023, this video showcases habitat enhancement work in the stretch of the River Crane that is fringed by Little Park and Pevensey Road Nature Reserve. This work is a necessary precursor to the eventual reintroduction of water voles in this reach. [Currently the only known colony of water voles in the Crane river system is located a little way downstream at Crane ...

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The Tower at Crane Park

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This video showcases the tower at Crane Park, Whitton. It's a Grade II listed building, a remnant of a gunpowder works that was once located here. Today this historic building is a visitor attraction and an architectural icon of the Crane Valley. The tower sits at the entrance to Crane Park Island, a lovely nature reserve managed by London Wildlife Trust. The reserve is on the River Crane, an u...

A riverside pathway in Twickenham, River Crane, 2023

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A riverside pathway in Twickenham, River Crane, 2023

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This video showcases a new pathway along the River Crane, linking Twickenham Station with Moormead Park. The 400 metre route, and associated wooded corridor, has been provided as part of the Twickenham Station re-development scheme, and further extends the walking network along the Crane Valley. The pathway was included as a planning condition when the station re-development was approved, and i...

River Crane in the southern section of Cranford Park February 2023

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River Crane in the southern section of Cranford Park February 2023

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This short video showcases the River Crane in the southern section of Cranford Park in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The river rises as the Yeading Brook in Harrow and becomes the Crane in the reach between Minet Country Park and Cranford Park. [N.B. Cranford Park is also known as Cranford Country Park and Cranford Countryside Park.] The first half of the video includes some footage of the ...

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Crane Valley Video Diary 2022

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This video diary is a short montage of miscellaneous clips collected during 2022 in the Crane Valley in West London. It captures the changing seasons and environmental conditions in this urban river catchment. It also showcases several enhancement projects undertaken by CVP partners. Here is the listing of the individual clips: January - (i) Upper Duke of Northumberland's River (UDNR) at Heathr...

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River Crane Catchment Conference 2022

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This is the official video record of the River Crane Catchment Conference 2022, held at the RFU Twickeham Stadium on 18th October 2022. The event was jointly hosted by the Crane Valley Partnership and Thames Water as part of the Smarter Water Catchments (SWC) initiative. The Crane Valley is the urban pilot catchment for SWC. The Crane Valley takes in parts of the London Boroughs of Harrow, Eali...