The watercourse has been created at Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve near Bampton in Oxfordshire.
A £2m project to create a new channel of the River Thames has been completed.
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust created the 450m watercourse at Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve near Bampton, in Oxfordshire.Chief Executive Estelle Bailey called it a "beacon of hope in the fight against climate change". The two-year project to re-establish a naturally functioning floodplain habitat was funded by a grant from the EU's European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, and involved creating a channel to bypass Shifford Weir.
The weir was made when a "short cut" channel was dug to connect two parts of the Thames to transport wool to London, but it blocked the movement of fish. BBOWT said populations of native species including barbel, chub, and dace would now be able to swim along a 30km stretch of the Thames and be "far more resilient to environmental change such as hotter, drier summers, and to pollution events".
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