Historic wall finally restored (From Witney Gazette)
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Historic wall finally restored
1:00pm Saturday 15th September 2012 in News
Jane Bowley, from the Wychwood Project, pictured with David Malloy, centre, rural crafts officer for the Cotswold Conservation Board and supervising dry stone waller Trevor Townsend
THEY have worked through blistering heat and freezing cold temperatures.
But after a year’s hard slog, a project to restore a historic wall has finally been completed.
Thanks to a grant from the Cotswold Conservation Board, volunteers from the Wychwood Project were able to rebuild a collapsed wall near St Oswald’s Church in Widford, near Burford.
Jane Bowley, from the Wychwood Project, said: “We started around June or July last year.
“We had a really hardworking gang who have worked through hail and high water.
“They’ve been burnt to frazzle and frozen solid but we have finished.”
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