Also had a walk up to an abandoned manor house at Hampton Gay. Apparently the house was destroyed by fire in the late 1800's and local superstition says that it was in retribution to the occupants who refused to take in casualties from an infamous train crash which happened locally when a train and carriages came of the rails and plunged into the River Cherwell.
We loved our journey down the Oxford but it made us work for the enjoyment. Of the 36 locks on this section of the canal only one was set in our favour when we arrived.
So today we got onto the Thames.
The idea had been to moor up before the first lock but to our eyes there didn't appear anywhere to moor although indicated in Nicholsons. We asked the lock keeper about mooring and it appears you just moor wherever you can, some of which might be charged by the landowner and some not. Tonight we are actually on a 24 hour mooring at the end of the lock staging. The good news is that the licence cost a lot less than I had calculated, obviously my maths at converting imperial square feet to metric is not what it should be but at least its in the right direction.
It is amazingly quiet on the river though. Coming up from Dukes Cut we saw no one and since being moored up at 1pm the only boat we have seen is a Environment Agency launch
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| Hampton Gay Manor House |
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| Hampton Gay Manor House |
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| Checking we are locking properly |
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| First mooring on the Thames at Eynsham Lock |
Glad to hear the river is quiet. Let's hope it stays that way. I take it you're going upstream first. Suss out some good mooring spots for us please. Have fun xx
ReplyDeleteWill do, this is really the first from Dukes cut but just under the bridge there are some river bank moorings but the farmer is charging £10 a night, dont know if thats going rate.
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