THE winners have been announced by Dulverton Weir and Leat Conservation Trust (DWLCT) of a children’s colouring competition.

Four pupils from Dulverton School were selected as winners of the colouring contest, which the trust ran jointly with Somerset Library Service.

Each winner took home a £10 book token to spend during the school holidays.

Pupils were asked to colour in a new drawing by well know local artist Annabel Greenfield, one of a series which were Dulverton themed.

It showed Olli, the Dulverton Otter, in Dulverton Library with librarian Rosanne Payne.

The drawing and others yet to be designed, will in the future be published as a book for local children.

The trust has been working to save Dulverton’s medieval weir and leat on the River Barle from collapse and restore them to good condition and conserve them for future generations.

The structures are recognised as having significant national historic interest and as an ‘urban watermill landscape’.

Dulverton is said to be ‘the best preserved medieval leat in England’.

It was built with oak stake and boulder technology which was introduced to the UK by the Normans, and which was used throughout the medieval period.

The structure stretches for about 160 yards and when it was built it represented a major investment in ‘cutting edge’ water power technology.