Droitwich canal advice - getting to Claines from the canal

[welshmike]

www.themug.co.uk in Claines looks like a top pub to visit - as does the church :-)

 

Does anyone know if its possible to moor and then get access from either of the Hawford locks, or from around the A449 bridge, to walk up to Claines?

 

looking on Google streetview and OS maps via bing.com/maps I can't make out if its possible to gain access to Hawford Lock Lane.

 

Any local advice would be lovely.

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

[Tonka]

could just email them and ask as they must be local

[BEngo]

www.themug.co.uk in Claines looks like a top pub to visit - as does the church :-)

 

Does anyone know if its possible to moor and then get access from either of the Hawford locks, or from around the A449 bridge, to walk up to Claines?

 

looking on Google streetview and OS maps via bing.com/maps I can't make out if its possible to gain access to Hawford Lock Lane.

 

Any local advice would be lovely.

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

It's pretty well impossible to moor anywhere on the Barge Canal before Droitwich. What moorings there are, are short, and shallow.

 

Best to moor in Netherwich basin and get a taxi.

 

N

[The Bagdad Boatman (waits)]

use the site wpt2.appspot.com/wheresthe path.htm Ordnance survey site maps like google with right of way paths

[welshmike]

It's pretty well impossible to moor anywhere on the Barge Canal before Droitwich. What moorings there are, are short, and shallow.

 

Best to moor in Netherwich basin and get a taxi.

 

N

Really? That's a shame. How about mooring alongside the lock bollards?

[Paul C]

Really? That's a shame. How about mooring alongside the lock bollards?

 

Alongside the lock bollards? You mean, like, mooring it on the lock landing?

[welshmike]

Alongside the lock landing. Wouldn't dare moor on the landing ;-)

[bottle]

Mike

 

Did the Droitwich and as said there are no moorings between the river and Droitwich, unless you want to put your boat on the bank.

 

The channel is very narrow between reeds etc and the canal is shallow at the edges.

[welshmike]

Ok. Where's the nearest place to Hawford jn on the Severn to moor?

[Paul C]

Alongside the lock landing. Wouldn't dare moor on the landing ;-)

 

Sorry, I'm being thick here. What do you mean alongside? Behind it? Or the other side of the canal? In any case, as far as I recall (only did the Droitwich Barge Canal once, though it was quite recent) the lock landings aren't generous in length and after that you're back to the same issue as everywhere else - extensive reeds and shallow edges.

 

HOWEVER having said that we did a couple of locks (came up the canal, after exiting the Severn) and did find somewhere to moor, it was about a metre from the bank but possible to get on and off if reasonably fit. I'll search around for a pic, because I remember everyone saying its impossible to moor on the canal but we managed it, so wanted to prove it! Can't remember exactly where it was on the canal though, but can't have been that far from where you want to stop.

[Paul C]

It IS possible!

 

 

Typical scene. There is a towpath there....somewhere...

 

[ditchcrawler]

It IS possible!

 

 

Typical scene. There is a towpath there....somewhere...

 

 

Nothing wrong with that mooring

[welshmike]

Where was that mooring photo taken?

[Graham Davis]

As an ex-Worcester liver and Mug House user.

 

Forget mooring at the bottom lock of the Droitwich as there isn't anywhere.

There is nothing on that side of the Severn until you get almost down to the Racecourse, and nothing around Bevere Lock.

 

Your best bet would be to moor in Droitwich and get a taxi, or the same from Worcester. Worcester would be cheaper. It is certainly possible to walk there from around the Perdiswell Lock area on the W & B.

Edited January 11, 2014 by Graham Davis

[Richard Fairhurst]

You can moor below Bevere overnight - there's a sign telling you not to do so during lock operating hours. But even then you're on the wrong side of the river, so I'd just go to the Camp House...

 

On the Barge Canal, I suspect you could moor in the new channel under the A449 by the Kings School at Hawford. It wouldn't necessarily be the quietest mooring, but it'd be near to Claines.

Edited January 11, 2014 by Richard Fairhurst

[welshmike]

Thanks everyone. My idea was to find somewhere to overnight before heading up to stourport, having started at Droitwich Spa marina round lunchtime. If under the bypass is best so be it. Shame there's nothing else before the Severn.

[Paul C]

Where was that mooring photo taken?

 

Not 100% sure but its pretty much where the OP wants to stop - a couple of locks up from the Severn.

[welshmike]

 

Not 100% sure but its pretty much where the OP wants to stop - a couple of locks up from the Severn.

That's what I would like - somewhere before joining the Severn. Paul,were you close to the caravan park I can see on the map

 

http://binged.it/1iANjnA

Edited January 12, 2014 by welshmike

[Paul C]

That's what I would like - somewhere before joining the Severn. Paul,were you close to the caravan park I can see on the map

 

http://binged.it/1iANjnA

 

Can't be 100% sure but I think its the general area. Certainly within walking distance.

[welshmike]

Cool