Boveney to Bray, Environment Agency 'Out and About' Guide
Boveney to Romney, Environment Agency 'Out and About' Guide
Boat rollers for small boats on left bank of Lock. Tel: 01753 862764, length: 149'7", width: 17'10"
1201: A fishery
1375: Toll at BaddesbyesLoke
1535: Lease of a “lock and weir of Boveney and Tyrryshaw”
1632: John Taylor –
Near Boveney Church a dangerous stop is found
On which five passengers were lately drowned
1770: Brindley’s Map – Gill’s Bucks
1780: “Navigation very difficult owing to the sharp turns of the river”
1834: “Tom Gill’s Bucks at Boveney Chapel”
1838: Poundlock built -
Shut in for the first time on November 17 and the cut and poundlock opened at 11am by two downward boats, the Alert and the Ariel, and the Union and one of Mr. Parker’s Trows passing up. All grounded at each end of the Cut, but by drawing and shutting the weir they all got off in about one hour.
1859: Mr & Mrs Hall –
Boveney Lock in 1859
1883: Boveney Lock, Henry Taunt -
Boveney Lock, Henry Taunt, 1883
© Oxfordshire County Council Photographic Archive; HT04008
1886: Armstrong – “A fall of little short of four feet”
1898: Pound lock rebuilt next to old site.
Rollers built on old site of lock.
1913: Weir rebuilt
1920: Fred Thacker –
About Boveney Chapel the main current swings away from the left bank down to the weir; and in flood time a veritable maëlstrom is set up where the fierce stream encounters the dead water at the head of the lock cut. In the high water at Whitsuntide in 1915 my skiff was violently twisted almost completely round against the bank at this point; the situation is not improved by the huge blocks of cement in the bed of the river. Bargemen regard the spot as one of the most unpleasant in the whole course of the Thames.
Note that when pulling a boat over the rollers - use a rope rather than pulling on the boat itself. (The longer the rope used the better - because a long rope pulls the boat sideways less - and on rollers it is often difficult to pull from a central position. Otherwise you can find most of your effort being used to keep the boat centred on the rollers.)
Map: Boveney Church
1859: Boveney Church -
Boveney Church, 1859
I wonder what the Victorian preacher is saying?
... and that, brethren, is why Mary has been made to sit at the back
... and ninthly, my dear friends, (and in parenthesis) …”
... and if any of you can tell me who made that black mark pointing to the seventh commandment beside the altar there,
my housekeeper and I would like to hear from you.
Boveney Church, 2004
Upstream to Dorney Lake
Estuary
PLA
QEII Br
Barrier
Tower Br
Custom Ho
London Br
; Frost Fairs
Cannon St Rb
The Great Stink
Southwark Br
Millenium Br
Blackfriars Rb
Blackfriars Br
Waterloo Br
Charing Cross Rb
Westminster Br
Lambeth Br
Vauxhall Br
Victoria Rb
Chelsea Br
Albert Br
Battersea Br
Battersea Rb
Wandsworth Br
Fulham Rb
Putney Br
Hammersmith Br
Barnes Rb
Chiswick Br
Kew Rb
Kew Br
RICHMOND
Twickenham Br
Richmond Rb
Richmond Br
TEDDINGTON
Kingston Rb
Kingston Br
Ditton Slip
Hampton Br
MOLESEY
SUNBURY
Walton Br
Desborough Cut
SHEPPERTON
Chertsey Br
CHERTSEY
M3 Br
Laleham Slip
PENTON HOOK
Staines Rb
Staines Br
Runnymede Br
BELL WEIR
Magna Carta Is
OLD WINDSOR
Albert Br
Datchet
Victoria Br
Black Potts Rb
ROMNEY
Eton
Windsor Br
Windsor Rb
Windsor Slip
Elizabeth Br
BOVENEY
Dorney Lake
York Cut
Summerleaze Fb
MonkeyIsland
New Thames Br
BRAY
Bray Slip
Maidenhead Rb
Maidenhead Br
Below Boulters
BOULTERS
Cliveden
Hedsor
COOKHAM
Cookham Slip
Cookham Br
BourneEnd RFb
Quarry Woods
A404 Br
MARLOW
Marlow Br
Bisham
TEMPLE
HURLEY
Medmenham
Culham Ct
Aston Slip
HAMBLEDEN
Temple Is
Fawley Ct
Remenham
Regatta
Phyllis Ct
Henley Slip
Leander
Red Lion
Henley Br
Angel on Br
Landing
Hobbs Boatyard
Hobbs Slipway
MARSH
Hennerton
Bolney
Wargrave
Shiplake Rb
R.Loddon
SHIPLAKE
Sonning Br
SONNING
Dreadnought
K&A Canal
CAVERSHAM
Reading Br
Caversham Br
Reading Slip
Purley
MAPLEDURHAM
Hardwick Ho
Whitchurch Br
WHITCHURCH
Hartswood Reach
Gatehampton Rb
Goring Gap
Goring Br
GORING
Swan
CLEEVE
Moulsford
Moulsford Rb
Papist Way Slip
Winterbrook Br
Wallingford Br
BENSON
Shillingford Br
R.Thame
DAYS
Burcot
Clifton Hampden
Clifton Church
Clifton H Br
Barley Mow
Long Wittenham
CLIFTON
Appleford Rb
Sutton Courtenay
Sutton Br
CULHAM
Culham Cut Fb
Abingdon Slip
Abingdon
Abingdon Br
ABINGDON
Nuneham Rb
Nuneham
Nuneham Park
Radley Boats
SANDFORD
Rose Island
Kennington Rb
Isis Br
Iffley Mill
IFFLEY
Oxford Rowing
Isis
Donnington Br
Riverside Slip
Boathouses
Punting
Lower Cherwell
Upper Cherwell
Islip
Head of River
Salters Steamers
Folly Br
Bacons Folly
Oxford Fb
Osney Fb
Weir stream
Osney Rb
Bullstake Stream
Osney Marina
OSNEY
Osney Br
Four Rivers
OLD RIVER
CANAL
Medley Weir Site
Medley Fb
Bossoms
Perch
Trout
GODSTOW
Godstow Nunnery
Godstow Br
Thames Br
KINGS
River Evenlode
EYNSHAM
Swinford Br
Oxford Cruisers
PINKHILL
Farmoor
Stanton Harcourt
Bablock Slip
Arks Weir Site
NORTHMOOR
Harts Fb
//Rose Revived
Newbridge
//Maybush
River Windrush
below Shifford
SHIFFORD
Shifford Fb
Tenfoot Fb
Trout Inn
Tadpole Br
RUSHEY
Old Mans Fb
RADCOT
Radcot Cradle Fb
Swan Inn
Radcot New Br
Radcot Old Br
GRAFTON
Eaton Hastings
Kelmscott
Eaton Fb
BUSCOT
Bloomers Hole Fb
Trout Inn
St Johns Br
ST JOHNS
Halfpenny Br
Marina Slip
LIMIT
Inglesham
Hannington Br
Kempsford
Castle Eaton Br
Marston Meysey
A419 Br
Cricklade
SOURCE?
THAMES HEAD
SEVEN SPRINGS