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Rivers

Gloucestershire

  • Tewkesbury to above Maismore Weir and Gloucester Docks
    entrance is normally B1, but when in flood is B2
  • Maismore Weir and Gloucester Docks entrance to Boxbush, on ebb tide is B2, on flood tide with no bore is B3 and on flood tide with bore is A

Hereford & Worcester

  • Upper Arley to Tewkesbury : B1 when the river is in normal summer conditions; B2 when the river is in winter conditions, B3 when the river is in spate or flood conditions.  Always inspect Folly Point Rapids before shooting. There is a bylaw prohibiting the shooting of Weirs on the River Severn below Stourport.

Montgomery

  • Above Llanidlos is NOT normally canoeable
  • Llanidloes to Newton: B1 (often very shallow and not
    canoeable)
  • Newton to River Vyrnwy confluence: B1

Shropshire

  • River Vyrnwy confluence to Upper Arley
    • B1 in normal conditions, except 50 metres either side of Shrewsbury Weir
    • B2 when in flood or spate conditions

Note

The lower reaches of the Severn can be extremely hazardous. See Glouchestershire for details of the bore

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

  • Under normal conditions and up to yellow alert: B1
  • Above yellow alert: B2

Essex

  • Purfleet to Gravesend: B2
  • Inshore Canvey Island to Southend: B1
  • West of a line from Shoeburyness to Warden Point: B2

Greater London counties

  • Upstream of Putney Bridge: B1
  • From Putney Bridge to Purfleet: B2 (unless otherwise classified)
  • Woolwich Barrier Radio Control Zone: B3

Gloucestershire

  • All: B1

Kent

  • Dartford to Mucking Flats: B2
  • Mucking Flats to Lower Hope Point, up to one mile offshore: B2
  • Mucking Flats to Lower Hope Point, one mile offshore to the median line: B3

Surrey

  • Except the Weirs, under normal conditions and up to yellow alert: B1
  • Above yellow alert: B2
  • All weirs: B3

Wiltshire

  • All: B1





 

 

Derbyshire

  • Normal conditions: B1
  • When in spate: B2
  • Below weirs normally from 1 April to 31 October: B2
  • From 1 November to 31 March: B3
  • Below weirs in spate: B3

Humberside

  • Where non-tidal: B1
  • Where tidal: A

Leicestershire

  • Normal conditions: B1

Nottinghamshire

  • Normally: B1
  • Below weirs normally: B2
  • Below weirs in spate: B3
  • From 1 November to 31 March: B3

Staffordshire

  • B1

Brecknock

  • Upstream of Llyswen: B3
  • Llyswen to Hay on Wye: B2
  • Downstream of Hay-on-Wye: B1

Gloucestershire

  • Roarden to Symonds Yat: in normal conditions is B1; when river lever is high it's B2
  • Symonds Yat Rapids: B2
  • Downstream of Symonds Yat Rapids: normal conditions from 1 April to 31 October it's B1; in spate from 1 April to 31 October is B2; 1 November to 31 March is B2

Gwent

  • Above Tintern: in normal conditions from 1 April to 31 October it's B1; in spate from 1 April to 31 October it's B2; from 1 November to 31 March it's B2
  • Between Tintern and Chepstow Bridge: B2
  • Between Chepstow Bridge and confluence with River Severn: B3

Hereford & Worcester

  • Hay on Wye to Symonds Yat: B1 when the river is in normal summer conditions; B2 when the river is in winter conditions, B3 when the river is in spate or flood conditions. Always inspect Mornington Falls and Symonds Yat Rapids before shooting.

Montgomery

  • A

Radnor

  • Upstream of Glasbury: B3
  • Glasbury to Hay-on-Wye: B2
  • Downstream of Hay-on-Wye: B1