Lower Wey - Stay Awey

[mark99]

You should not go to the lower Wey - too built up and despoiled by suburbia. Leave it to us poor Suvernors.

 

Part 2 soon - why you should avoid the upper Wey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 7, 2016 by mark99

[cereal tiller]

You should not go to the lower Wey - too built up and despoiled by suburbia. Leave it to us poor Suvernors.

 

Part 2 soon - why you should avoid the upper Wey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lovely picture of Papercourt Lock

 

Yes the Wey is awful!

 

CT

Edited May 7, 2016 by cereal tiller

[Ray T]

Yes who'd want that scenery when you can have this?

 

 

 

Well actually you can't have the scene of the picture above as the Coventry Light has long gone, but you get the gist.

Edited May 7, 2016 by Ray T

[Rob-M]

Looks horrendous.

[john6767]

Thanks for the warning, crossed off my to do list.

 

To be honest must places look good in this weather.

[mark99]

Thanks for the warning, crossed off my to do list.

 

To be honest must places look good in this weather.

 

 

Including the dossy end of my garden which is full of bluebells and spring flowers which are to die for.

[MtB]

The beast bit is of course, that you leave the lock gates open when you leave a lock.

 

I actually got a bollocking for shutting them after me once!

[mark99]

The beast bit is of course, that you leave the lock gates open when you leave a lock.

 

I actually got a bollocking for shutting them after me once!

 

It's like a dream. Opening both seems like no issue but leaving them both open is a liberating experience.

[MtB]

 

It's like a dream. Opening both seems like no issue but leaving them both open is a liberating experience.

 

 

Yes and the opposite applies when coming back onto the K&A.

 

Ludicrous to be expected to close up everything after passing through on a river.

[cereal tiller]

 

 

Including the dossy end of my garden which is full of bluebells and spring flowers which are to die for.

When you say 'Lower Wey',do you mean the section from Thames Lock to Guildford,and the Upper Wey is the other bit from Guildford to Godalming?

 

Just a guess,have not heard the Navigation described in 2 parts before.

 

CT

[MtB]

Isn't the bit from Guildford to Godalming something else, i.e. not the Wey?

[Bettie Boo]

Poor you

 

You have my sympathies...we're stuck on the GU with the only thing to look at are the apple and cherry blossoms, along with the bluebells & daisies (but please don't tell anyone, they'll think its a nice place to cruise or something)

[MtB]

When you say 'Lower Wey',do you mean the section from Thames Lock to Guildford,and the Upper Wey is the other bit from Guildford to Godalming?

 

Just a guess,have not heard the Navigation described in 2 parts before.

 

CT

 

 

Right, yes. The southern bit is the Godalming Navigation...

[cereal tiller]

Isn't the bit from Guildford to Godalming something else, i.e. not the Wey?

They are collectively described as 'The Wey and Godalming Navigations.

 

CT

[GUMPY]

Historically it has always been the River Wey and Godalming Navigation the dividing point being Guildford.

Geographically its just the River Wey

[mark99]

When you say 'Lower Wey',do you mean the section from Thames Lock to Guildford,and the Upper Wey is the other bit from Guildford to Godalming?

 

Just a guess,have not heard the Navigation described in 2 parts before.

 

CT

 

 

Only said to differentiate "we ain't travelled it all yet" not on this trip anyhow. We are moored up and will return to complete. But we did complete the Wey system some time ago in a hire boat - well we got as far as the Basingstoke and, being newbies, wedged the full lengther across the entrance <whilst winding> therefore blocking off two navigations simultaneously. We got it free after me losing 1/2 stone in nervous energy. ... and then getting hooked.

Edited May 7, 2016 by mark99

[cereal tiller]

 

 

Only said to differentiate "we ain't travelled it all yet" not on this trip anyhow. We are moored up and will return to complete. But we did complete the Wey system some time ago in a hire boat - well we got as far as the Basingstoke and, being newbies, wedged the full lengther across the entrance <whilst winding> therefore blocking off two navigations simultaneously. We got it free after me losing 1/2 stone in nervous energy. ... and then getting hooked.

Stay hooked..

 

CT

[MtB]

You should have doen the basingstoke.

 

It is the creepiest thing in the world to arrive at a lock and see a canal ranger jeep arrive in unison with you, unchain it and let you through, then chain it up afterwards. Then have the same thing happen at the next lock, and the next... and the next.....

[cereal tiller]

You should have doen the basingstoke.

 

It is the creepiest thing in the world to arrive at a lock and see a canal ranger jeep arrive in unison with you, unchain it and let you through, then chain it up afterwards. Then have the same thing happen at the next lock, and the next... and the next.....

He may have thought that your A.S.B.O. was not yet expired?

 

CT

[MtB]

How disd you know about my asBO??!

[mark99]

You should have doen the basingstoke.

 

It is the creepiest thing in the world to arrive at a lock and see a canal ranger jeep arrive in unison with you, unchain it and let you through, then chain it up afterwards. Then have the same thing happen at the next lock, and the next... and the next.....

Watch this space. We are lurking around this area for a while yet. I like the fact I can nearly walk home.