Broads Navigatable Limits

[Snowy]

Advice please on legal and safely passable navigation limits,

we will be using our inflatable kayak so draft and air draft is not really an issue

didnt want to head up river and find we are on private land etc

I'm guessing at some point it must become private

we have only ever been hirers so the areas we would like to explore are

the rivers in question are The Wensum past Norwich Yacht Station

and The Bure past Coltishall

how far can we go ?

[ranworthbreeze]

35 minutes ago, Snowy said:

Advice please on legal and safely passable navigation limits,

we will be using our inflatable kayak so draft and air draft is not really an issue

didnt want to head up river and find we are on private land etc

I'm guessing at some point it must become private

we have only ever been hirers so the areas we would like to explore are

the rivers in question are The Wensum past Norwich Yacht Station

and The Bure past Coltishall

how far can we go ?

Hi Snowy,

With regards to the Wensum, you can go a fair distance.

Source
		Wissonsett
		A1065 Bridge
		River Tat
		Sculthorpe Mill (extant)
		A1065 Bridge
		Site of Hempton Mill (d.1954)
		Fakenham Mill (extant)
		Site of Gt Ryburgh Mill (d.1925)
		B1110 Bridge, Guist
		Bintree Mill (extant)
		North Elmham Mill (extant)
		B1145 Bridge, Billingford
		Site of Swanton Morley Mill (d.~1840)
		B1147 Bridge, Swanton Morley
		Elsing Mill (extant)
		Site of Lyng Mill (d.1868)
		Lenwade Mill (extant)
		A1067 Bridge
		River Ainse (or Eyn)
		A1067 bridge, Attlebridge
		Site of Tavenham Mill (d.1899)
		Site of Costessey Mill (d.1924)
		Site of Hellesdon Mill (d.1920)
		River Tud
		A140 Bridge
		A1024 Bridge
		A147 Barn Road Bridge(Inner ring road)
		New Mills Compressor Station
		New Mill Yard Bridge
		New Mills yard
		Coslany Street Bridge
		Duke Street Bridge
		St Georges Bridge
		Fye Bridge
		Jarrold Bridge
		Whitefriars Bridge
		Bishopgate Bridge
		Foundry Bridge, Norwich
		Lady Julian Bridge
		Novi Sad Friendship Bridge
		A147 Carrow Bridge(Inner ring road)
		Junction with River Yare
		River Yare   Regards Alan

[Snowy]

21 minutes ago, ranworthbreeze said:

Hi Snowy,

With regards to the Wensum, you can go a fair distance.

Source
		Wissonsett
		A1065 Bridge
		River Tat
		Sculthorpe Mill (extant)
		A1065 Bridge
		Site of Hempton Mill (d.1954)
		Fakenham Mill (extant)
		Site of Gt Ryburgh Mill (d.1925)
		B1110 Bridge, Guist
		Bintree Mill (extant)
		North Elmham Mill (extant)
		B1145 Bridge, Billingford
		Site of Swanton Morley Mill (d.~1840)
		B1147 Bridge, Swanton Morley
		Elsing Mill (extant)
		Site of Lyng Mill (d.1868)
		Lenwade Mill (extant)
		A1067 Bridge
		River Ainse (or Eyn)
		A1067 bridge, Attlebridge
		Site of Tavenham Mill (d.1899)
		Site of Costessey Mill (d.1924)
		Site of Hellesdon Mill (d.1920)
		River Tud
		A140 Bridge
		A1024 Bridge
		A147 Barn Road Bridge(Inner ring road)
		New Mills Compressor Station
		New Mill Yard Bridge
		New Mills yard
		Coslany Street Bridge
		Duke Street Bridge
		St Georges Bridge
		Fye Bridge
		Jarrold Bridge
		Whitefriars Bridge
		Bishopgate Bridge
		Foundry Bridge, Norwich
		Lady Julian Bridge
		Novi Sad Friendship Bridge
		A147 Carrow Bridge(Inner ring road)
		Junction with River Yare
		River Yare   Regards Alan

Wow thank you Alan 

[TheQ]

The canal above Coltishall lock was formally abandoned in 1928 therefore I don't think you can officially paddle that one.

The North Walsham and Dilham canal, was never legally shut down and there is  restoration going on. The Canal above Swafield locks was sold off and is not navigable.

 The Waxham New cut, is a canal Built I believe, for a brickworks, and is navigable by big boats as far as Brograve, where it is blocked by a bridge, how far you can paddle beyond that I don't know. what the legality of the bridge blocking the way is, I don't know.

[LizG]

Canoes do go up the Bure above Coltishall Lock, there is portage point at Horstead but I don't know whether you can get beyond the next lock.  The Canoe Man certainly does commercial trips beyond Coltishall

http://www.thecanoeman.com/guidedcanoetrails.php

[ExMemberBobdog]

There's no problem paddling all the way from Coltishall lock to Buxton Mill.  It's a bit tricky to get above Buxton Mill, you'd have to get out and carry the boat a fair way and not easy to find a place to put back in, but it's not impossible.

[Snowy]

Thank you for the replies