The fields are bounded by drainage ditches and sluices are now being added so that the water levels can be controlled to provide the optimum conditions. |
Ashore a spume of brine water rains from an overhanging crag and sluices back through the beach. |
It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices. |
Since acquiring the redundant farmland the trust has carried out a programme of restoration which has included restoring sluices, re-opening waterways and a grazing policy. |
He chops wood, mows his own field, goes knee-deep into mud to clean sluices in his own pond, prunes back elder trees and picks pears. |
Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up. |