Canal and Tipi Experience



Website: http://www.canalandtipiexperience.co.uk

Email:          canal.experience@virgin.net

Address:

Nick Harborne
Paul Roberts
Honeysuckle Cottage
Picklepythe Lane
Beenham
Reading
RG7 5NT
  

Telephone: 07713 687766 0r 07740 492842

Base Canal / River: Kennet and Avon

Base Marina: Nr Beenham

Types of Boats Offered: Trads and cruiser Stern Boats 4- 6 berths

Periods of Hire: Days, Weeks and Short Breaks

Comments and Reviews:

Canal boat and Tipi ( Tee-pee) hire ( Pyramid shaped pole tents as used by Indians in Westerns,  but bigger )

6  berth  weekly Narrowboat  Hire: £770 (March) to £1397 ( Aug) Pets £25


Recommended routes:

 Up stream towards Bath/Bristol
Ufton Nurvet 2 hours
Tyle Mill 2.15
Aldermaston 4
Woolhampton 5.25
Midgham Lock 6.5
Thatcham 7.25
Bulls lock 8.5
Newbury wharf 10
Hamstead Marshall 12
Kintbury 14
Hungerford 16
Froxfield Bottom Lock 18
Great Bedwyn 20
Crofton Pumping Station 22


 Wooton Rivers
Pewsey 27 hours
Devizes 34
Fox Hanger 38
Sells Green Bridge 39
Semington Dry Dock 41
Hilperton 42.5
Bradford on Avon 43
Dundas 44.5
Sydney Wharf, BATH 45.5
Pulteney weir BATH, 47
Bath Marina 48
Hanham Lock 50
Bristol Docks 51.5


 Route Planner
The broad rule of thumb when calculating how far you can travel in a
day is to count each lock as 1 mile, add this number to the actual miles
covered over a given stretch of canal, and then divide the total by 3 to
give the total time in hours. The following times, calculated from the
pick up point at Burghfield Island, are approximate :


 Down stream towards the Thames
County Lock, Reading 1.5 hours
Chestnut walk, Reading 2
Kennet Mouth onto the THAMES 2.5

 Thames up stream
Caversham Lock 2.75 hours
Mapledurham 4
Goring Streatly 6
Wallinford 8
Abingdon 12.5
Oxford 14
Oxford canal 15.5
Eynsham 17.5
Radcot 23.5
Lechlade (source of the Thames) 26


 Thames down stream
Sonning 3.25
Wargrave 4.25
Henley on Thames 5.25
Marlow 7.5
Maidenhead 10.75
Windsor 12.75
Staines 14.5
Shepperton 17.5
Sunbury 18.75
Teddington 21.75
Brentford Grand Union Canal Junction 22.75
Westminister 25.5
Limehouse Basin 26.75