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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.