Bargate

[Ray]

Hopefully I've got the right name here, the small Broad that you can access in Brundall... port side as you head upstream.

Anyway, many many years ago we mud weighted overnight here and it was pretty wonderful.

Is this still possible? I had a cruise through last time I was out and didn't see any channel markers or obvious restrictions (there was a small area with the yellow poles off to one side)

Can't mud weight while the dog is with us anyway but if I got a chance for a little solo break it would be high on my list.

[Regulo]

My favourite. You can mudweight anywhere. Place is one of the best for watching kingfishers. 

[Gracie]

My favourite too. I've mud weighted on Barton Broad, absolutely magical. Salhouse Broad is brilliant too especially watching the comings and goings on a summers day. Isn't boating just the best thing,. You can moor up at a pub and be sociable or mud weight and be completely alone, best of both worlds x

[oldgregg]

It's known as either Surlingham Broad or Bargate, although technically I think Surlingham broad refers to the whole area that Bargate is part of.

Lovely spot and so handy from Brundall. I do miss the southern rivers 

[Paul]

Surlingham Broad and Bargate are separate stretches of water. The navigable broad is Bargate. Surlingham Broad is shallow and navigable only by small craft. If you enter by the upstream dyke from the middle of Brundall turn left for Bargate or right for Surlingham. Surlingham Staithe is also up there. We made it up in a dinghy some years ago but I believe tree falls have now blocked access

[oldgregg]

Is that the bit in the lower right, then?

[oldgregg]

The other bits have a collection of odd names

[Chelsea14Ian]

We always called it Surlingham broad.

[Captain]

I always call it Surlingham Broad and always will, even though that's technically incorrect. To be honest I have called it that for 50 years so wont be changing soon, I blame all the guides and relatives who have always referred to it as that, just like Ranworth is Malthouse. I am awkward like that.

Anyway It's a great peaceful mooring with plenty of wildlife. I mudweighed two/three weeks back and was fine. I think the only issue I saw was plenty of weed or undergrowth in parts, no prop issues just a collection on the mudweight

Neil 

[Broads01]

It is indeed a gorgeous spot and being small and surrounded by trees is fairly sheltered. Just be sure to leave enough slack on your mudweight rope to allow for tidal rise and fall.

[chrisdobson45]

We cruised through Bargate on Saturday afternoon, a few boats mudweighting in the breeze

[Vaughan]

14 hours ago, Ray said:

(there was a small area with the yellow poles off to one side)

 

Behind those posts are the "bones" of at least seven wherries, which were sunk on the broad during the war. When I was a boy they were still more or less whole and I could walk all over their decks.  I have read that a lot of the ironwork and other fittings were "re-cycled" from them when the Wherry Trust bought the Albion and re-rigged her as a sailing wherry, in the early 50s.

 

 

I too, have never heard it called anything but Surlingham Broad, until only about 10 years ago.

[Smoggy]

Most folk will know where you mean if you call it surlingham broad, I had my old RLM31 quite a long way into the proper surlingham broad back in 2012 but wouldn't try it now on fixed shafts.

[vanessan]

Until very recently, the sign to the Broad (almost opposite the Brundall Church Fen moorings) pointed to Surlingham Broad. It now says Bargate Broad. Maybe the sign to Ranworth Broad should be changed to Malthouse Broad! 

[Smoggy]

35 minutes ago, vanessan said:

Maybe the sign to Ranworth Broad should be changed to Malthouse Broad! 

That's being changed to "Caution! Bandits.".

[oldgregg]

1 hour ago, vanessan said:

Maybe the sign to Ranworth Broad should be changed to Malthouse Broad! 

Well... It's not actually wrong. I mean you pass the entrance to Ranworth Broad as you enter Malthouse.

Also does the sign not just say 'Ranworth' ?

[Vaughan]

Perhaps :

MALTHOUSE :

A member of the Broads Family.

[MauriceMynah]

If the BA insist on charging to moor at Ranworth staithe, I will happily pay it... wherever that is. Does Malthouse have a staithe?

 

"Tongue in cheek" for those who don't know me. 

[grendel]

would have thought you would moor up at bargate more often, after all it has the word Bar in it