Culham Reach
Culham Reach is the long straight below Abingdon.
1886: Julia Isham Taylor, Down the Thames -
The banks of the river are low for some
distance below Abingdon and the characters of the views
remains the same, very slight hills, clumps of vigorous trees or single ones at
irregular distances, alone break the sky line.
It is this gentle flatness without hardness or a depressing effect which
is so typical of many of the English counties.
In France and Germany
the lines of the landscape are clearer and harder, the trees more stiff.
Abingdon Marina Slipway
Left Bank, Tel: 01235 536147 abingdonmarina@tiscali.co.uk
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Abingdon Marina Slipway
Abingdon Marina Map
The slipway is well constructed, except
that it is said not to protrude enough under water so that heavy boats on large
trailers may drop their wheels over the edge.
There should be no problem for smaller trailed boats.
The new marina is downstream of Abingdon
itself. It is a housing development beside a gravel pit with a useful
slipway and splendid moorings for residents (and a few more houses now than
shown above).