This is very, very lovely and wonderful to see. What would happen though, if more of the banks were gentle and sloping, not a sharp vertical drop? What if there were riffles and beaches on the inside corners and eddies undercutting the outer bends? Wouldn't that allow more winter flooding to spill over and really join the river to its floodplain again? And it would allow small creatures down to the water to drink, and create an even greater variety of habitat.

Hi team, this might be left of field, but Ive been trying to find a good resource on where to buy land to regenerate. Do you have any recommendations?

Beautiful.

Brilliant work.......

Amazing effort and great results!!!

Need to add also lots of pebbles,that cleans streams and allows fish to lay eggs.We need these sorts of projects in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire

Whats so special about these Chalk rivers??. 😅. I can't find any video that explain how diferent these chalk river from normal rivers. All these rivers look like normal river.

THANK YOU FOR RESTORING THE RIVER

Conservation or bigger catches? The UK is in the bottom 10 countries in the world for nature depletion.

Awesome project and a super chap! Norfolk are so terrific at nature restoration. Shame our water companies can’t do as well as them.

Awesome work - love to see how little it takes to let nature recover itself - and how well nature is at that! Wholesome work, congratulations and thanks to everyone involved, stuff like this makes me sleep well! :)

Our own mini Amazon. Just as important as large rivers, these are just as critical to the ecosystem. Good luck

Superb!! huge respect for what you are achieving.You now have a wonderful wildlife haven👏👏👏

That looks great. I have a similar idea on a smaller scale, for restoring a very unique Welsh stream that ended up being converted into a drainage chanel. This project could do with some help from like minded people who are passionate about restoring biodiversity and revamping Welsh spring fed streams.

I pay every year for rod licence and that's were the money should go but it doesn't and l find this disgusting

Norfolk rivers drainage board aught too do something about the Gaywood river

It certainly seems like a good idea but it must have caused a lot of destruction to the original wildlife. For instance what happened to everything living in the old course of the river when you closed it off and diverted the water into the new course. Masses of wildlife would have died as the old course dried up. Maybe the ends justified the means, perhaps?

Perhaps you could take a look at the river Wissey from little Cressingham to Carbrooke. A lot of badly informed trenching took place along this stretch in the 1970's.

Thank you for trying to restore this river to its original beauty!

Inspirational. Thank you

What a morale boost this is. Thank you to everyone working to restore and protect our rivers.

magnificent well done

Brilliant work 👏

I am so glad i came across this on my explore, it's absolutely incredible. The cinematography, the narration, the work involved by everyone let me escape everything for the entire 12 minutes. My only criticism is, i wish it was longer.

Absolutely brilliant to see, all this work being done, in this lovely part of the country. Congratulations Charles and your team. Brilliantly filmed and a joy to watch. I’m a volunteer; further down the river, any chance; you’ll be continuing Narborough to King’s Lynn?

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Thank you Charles. What a wonderful blend of knowledge/skill and artistry. To all those involved what a wonderful inspiration to those of us still trying to mobilise sufficient support to try and achieve restoration of our chalk streams.

What a brilliant project. The Bure above AYLSHAM offers the same opportunity to make a step change in a restoration sense, and your project shows just what can be done here in Norfolk.

Fantastic & insightful video 👍

I moored for a summer in The River Nar where it flows into The River Great Ouse in Kings Lynn. So lovely to see where the Nar comes from.

I would love to be part of the film making process for these kind of projects

Congratulation to all those involved as well as my thanks.

I was lucky enough to fish the Barton Court Estate’s chalk streams a few years ago for a birthday treat and despite the “unseasonable” downpour on the day I managed to catch a beautiful 2lb brownie on a dry fly. I also had a great chat with Nick who pointed out I had been casting to a shoal of chub and not the target species for about an hour ….very tactfully! Keep up the amazing work …hopefully I will be back.🎣

What an extraordinary film and what an amazing project. I’m so happy someone is doing what they can do to restore these unique habits in England. Keep up the great work.

Great works

Brilliant work Charles and the team. And a lovely film too. Thank you.

Tha5 was a wonderful project well done to all involved.

What a wonderful initiative, well done all those involved.

Fantastic film about a brilliantly done project. Congratulations to all involved!

Excellent work

So amazing that in UK we are now re-naturing rivers. I can still remember when a JCB digger turned a beautiful stretch of the River Eden in Kent into a drainage channel, destroying all the fish etc habitat. Awesome.

Shame all the watercress beds have gone, have to buy this bagged taste less imported stuff now!

would love to have been involved in this

Love the fact that at 4:20 there's a fish breaking the surface.

Brilliant. I managed our local river for about seven years and did many of the things you have done and we now have more wild trout caught than introduced. 2007 Wild Trout Trust Award was the result.

Wonderful

Fantastic work, Id so like to help on project's like this.

This is a beautiful film, and such important work. And beautifully filmed.

Bravo!

Thank you