Other waterways

[Captain Coochie]

What other navigable waterways lead into or from the Thames and have you been on them ?

 

[boatone]

Wey Navigations - yes Basingstoke Canal leads off Wey - No.
Grand Union at Brentford - No.
Grand Union/Lee&Stort etc at Limehouse - No.
River Lee also further downriver I think but No.
River Mudway - ask Oldgit.
Thames and Kennet at Reading - No.
Oxford Canal at Oxford - No.
River Thame - Dorchester - bit ickle - No.

That do for starters? Might have missed a few /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[TrueBlue]

Wey Navigation - Yes
Basingstoke Canal leads off Wey - No. No water
Grand Union at Brentford - Yes.
Grand Union at Limehouse - Yes
Lee&Stort etc at Limehouse - Yes.
BowBack Rivers No.
Thames and Kennet at Reading - Yes.
Oxford Canal at Oxford - Yes.
River Thame - Dorchester - bit ickle - Yes 10yds - no water.

River Ember Yes
Hennerton backwater Yes, dinghy
River Loddon Yes, Dinghy
St. Patrick's stream Yes, Dinghy
Swift Ditch (bottom of) Yes, Dinghy
Abbey Stream Yes, Dinghy
Bulstake Stream No
River Cherwell Yes, Dinghy
River Evenlode Yes, Dinghy
Cassington cut - many years ago
River Windrush Yes, Dinghy
Four Rivers Yes, Dinghy
AND the Isis above Inglesham Yes, Dinghy
Plus all weir streams, and the "wrong" sides of islands where navigable

Have I missed anything important?

 

[ianc1200]

Minor bits missing I can think of

Cassington Cut, up to the junction with the Evenlode. I did it in 1974, and again 10 years ago, and the junction has changed and you have to drag your canoe up over a wall, then shoot down a weir.

As you approach Eynsham Lock there's the stream off to the right (going upstream) a couple of hundred yards beforehand (the Wharfe Stream?) going up to the pub, which I believe was used commercially).

There's the stream which bypasses Cookham lock on the Berkshire bank side (under the small bridge and past the private club).

We have done Dartford Creek and River Cray this year, and the rest of the crew (on dare I say a narrowboat) did Deptford Creek, Barking Creek, the River Wandle, and much Bow Back Rivering.


IanC

 

[byron]

That stream at Cookham is very interesting but very shallow and even a light inflatable will need hauling in places. It is surprising how few people realise it is there indeed I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. There's also a VERY tiny stream you can get up with something small like a canoe and that is before Wallingford and is called Winterbrook.

 

[ianc1200]

I also went a couple of hundred yards up the river Ock at Abingdon wronly believing it was part of the Wilts and Berks canal, because of the sign on the bridge.

Also I believe, but have never seen it, there's a small lock on the river at Bourne End (the Bourne?) which I think enters from behind the boatyard.

IanC

 

[mersey]

River Ember Yes

Have I missed anything important?

Is it navigatable with 1m draft?

 

[Actionmat]

I've done the Thame in a dinghy. Very overgrown and plenty of prop fouling, but good fun and the more adventurous route to Dorchester.

 

[oldgit]

blimming heck talk about resurrection of an old thread.

 

[Viking23]

Hi Ian, the stream in Bourne End leads up to the Abbotsbrook - a private estate. There is an Upper stream which is basically circular, with rollers giving access for small boats (canoes) down to the Lower stream which then feeds into the Thames. My brother and I once took our tender round the upper stream and we had a Seagull outboard running, which upset some of the neighbours! They did not like the petrol fumes in their gardens or the noise! In those days the streams were about 2-3’ deep so you could get all the way down to the Thames in a dinghy.

There used to be a resident pike not far from the mouth into the Thames, a very mean-looking fish.

Sadly the streams are rather silted up now so no longer fully navigable.

Steve