...........................or, the HBBR voyage to seek the navigational limit of the River Arun.
The River Arun used to be connected to the River Wey by the Wey and Arun Canal. this effectively connected the capital London to the south coast and Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy, by an inland waterway.
Officially abandoned in 1871 when it was superseded by the railways, much of the canal sections particularly towards the Arun end have all but disappeared, however the enthusiastic volunteers of the Wey & Arun Trust have worked hard to restore much of it at the Wey end.
Chris Partridge of Rowing for Pleasure has already reported on this trip.
How we battled through jungles of reeds and endured untold privations to reach the pub our goal.
We got there just before the tide so the last few yards were a bit bumpy, but we did reach the point at which the canal turned off the river.
Not much to see now but Chris Waite is positive this is the place.
We should have brought a couple of shovels.
You can watch the whole weedy adventure in its unexpurgated form below.
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Punts, that's what's needed here. No, that's not the name of a new ale.
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