As a section of the Camping and Caravanning Club, all our camping events are open to Camping and Caravanning Club members (including Canoe-camping Club members) only. Anyone participating must be a member of the Camping and Caravanning Club before attending a meet.

Please remember to bring your Club membership cards to all club events, since we are required to check and record memberships are current.  We also need to record BRITISH CANOEING numbers for those who have them. Paddlers need to be a member of the Canoe-camping Club and/or one of Britain's paddlesport National Governing Bodies*.   These are needed to ensure that we are covered by the Club's and British Canoeing's insurance.
Canoeing and kayaking are ‘assumed risk’ ‘water contact’ activities, however serious accidents are very rare.
Participants should be aware of and accept these risks, and be responsible for their own action and involvement.
All participants in club trips or meets do so at their own risk, and neither the Club nor its officers can accept any liability for loss or injury of any kind sustained whilst on a Club trip, meet or other activity.

*British Canoeing / Canoe Wales / Canoe NI / The Scottish Canoe Association

Coming events

UPPER CAM
Saturday 07 November 2015, 09:45am
Contact Pete Bradshaw

Shepreth to Cambridge

NB This run is on a SATURDAY

Start    Road bridge between Shepreth and Barrington, OS Landranger 1/50000 sheet 154, Grid Reference 385490.  Meet for car ferry at 0945h in order to start canoeing by 1100h at latest.

 

Finish Car park at Lammas Land recreation ground, Cambridge, OS Landranger 1/50000 sheet 154, Grid Reference 447573, at around 1600h.  NB there are height barriers (headroom 2m) on the car park entrance which may require removal of any upstanding kayak carriers from roof bars when you enter the car park, and may also require you to load boats outside the barrier at the end of the trip.

 

Getting there

Coming S on the A10

About 1 mile after the level crossing at Foxton take a turning R on a minor road signed Shepreth and ‘Shepreth Wildlife Park’.  After about 0.6 ml you come to the village of Shepreth.  Continue straight through in the direction of Barrington.  After about another 0.6 ml there is a small car park L, about 100m before the bridge over the river, signed ‘Riverside Walk’.  Meet in the car park, from where we can drag or carry boats approx 100m across the adjoining nature reserve to the river bank.

 Coming N on the A10

After the Melbourne bypass take the second turning signposted ‘Shepreth’ on the L, which is also signed ‘Shepreth Wildlife Park’.  Then as above.

 

Canoeing

A paddle of 8 miles (12.5 km) on a small river, about 3m wide at the starting point,  There is one low footbridge (you can just paddle underneath unless the water is high) and several small weirs/sluices, some shootable. We may have to contend with low water level and/or dense weed.  Fallen trees are always a problem.  We may have to get out and carry round some of them.  So expect a slightly ‘adventurous’ paddle.

 

Lunch stop

On the river bank, probably at Harston.

 

Please let me know (via Pete) if you are coming, letting me have an email address and a contact phone number in case the trip has to be changed or cancelled at short notice. Please also provide your CCC membership no and/or your BCU membership no.

Location Shepreth
Run Leader - Jon Newton