eawa - East Anglian Waterways Association

The River Gipping Trust is preserving the historic heritage of the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation by restoring the structures that enabled navigation of the River Gipping from the docks in Ipswich to Stowmarket and caring for the flora and fauna of The Gipping Valley

The Trust is now a completely independent organisation, although it does have strong links with the local branch of the Inland Waterways Association. They also hope to forge links with all the other groups that have an interest in the well being of the Gipping Valley.

At the open meeting, held on Friday 26th. September 2008, the Chairman County Councillor Jeremy Clover introduced fellow trustees to an audience of over eighty people with an interest in the environment of the River Gipping, which was followed by an enthusiastic talk by local Riparian owner and resident, Gordon Crosby on ‘The Rights, Responsibilities and Hopes of a Riparian Owner’

The audience then viewed a power point presentation showing not just the history of the river and the Ipswich Branch of the Inland Waterways Association’s restoration so far, but the proposals for the future. Hopefully one day the locks will be re-gated and this waterway will have the pleasure of seeing the restoration of minor traffic and use as a recreational asset to the area.