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Founded in 1911 the club is looking forward to celebrating it’s centenary.
Occupying an attractive island site the club is home to some 75 boats.
There is a well appointed clubhouse with a licensed bar which is open every weekend.
Visiting boats from other clubs and members of AWCC are welcome to use the facilities of the club.
N.B. The club site is enclosed within a security fence.
Grid reference: SP 793 605
Road access from Billing Road East
Overnight mooring.
Emergency slipping.
A friendly family club where both the novice and more experienced sailor are equally welcome. The club is situated on the 180 acre Thrapston Lake, a worked out gravel pit, and is the home to some 200 dinghies. Organised racing takes place from March to December with mid-week racing in the summer.
Regular training sessions are held for the novice and the more experienced helmsman as well as taster sessions for would be members.
The club has extensive changing and workshop facilities. The clubhouse, open weekends and mid-week as required, has a licensed bar and canteen. Thrapston town centre is less than a mile away. Titchmarsh Nature Reserve, an SSSI, lies to the North of the lake.
Grid reference: SP 993 793
Road access via Chancery Lane
Overnight mooring on river bank adjacent to clubhouse.
The club established in the 60’s has the use of Titchmarsh Mill, a listed building, a truly wonderful picturesque setting in the heart of the Nene Valley.
Some 90 boats of varying size, are moored in the mill head and above the lock and in the pool and gravel pit below the mill.
The club has a licensed bar open at weekends and all the usual facilities.
Although in the middle of the Titchmarsh Nature Reserve, which was developed in the worked out gravel pits around the club, there is no direct access from the club site. Just enjoy!
N.B. The site is fenced.
Grid reference: TL 015 810
Road access from A605
Overnight mooring.
Oundle Cruising Club is a small, friendly club based in Oundle Marina midway between Peterborough and Northampton. A fifteen minute walk away is the historic town of Oundle where a good range of shops and restaurants may be found. The marina has the usual facilities except for a pump-out.
Visitors are welcome to moor on banks surrounding the clubhouse and to use the facilities in the club when open (Kitchen, Shower etc), and a voluntary contribution to cover the cost of these is appreciated. The bar is open Friday evenings, Saturday lunchtime and evenings also Sunday lunchtime. Club events are arranged throughout the year.
Visitors are assured of a friendly welcome!
Grid reference: TL 038 871
Road access via Fairline works and Marina
Overnight mooring.
The club has moorings for 42 boats each being allocated 40ft of river bank in the millstream to Warmington Mill. There are also 2 moorings reserved for visitors.
The maximum length of boat that can be accommodated is 36ft.
Due to the development of Warmington Mill the club is moving from its old building (above). The new clubhouse (open in 2002) will have the same services as the original as well as its own parking area. It is hoped that visitors will continue to come to the club.
There is a very pleasant pub at the end of the lane (800 yds) and in the village a butcher, village store and church as well as the Warmington Social Club.
Grid reference: TL 074 915
Road access adjacent to Warmington roundabout, A605.
Overnight mooring.
A small rural Boat Club situated in a very picturesque setting between Alwalton Lock and Water Newton. Nearby is the very pretty village of Wansford in England.
On the site is a clubhouse, and bankside moorings for 40 boats, predominantly modern mid-range cruisers. Water is available providing a club member is on hand.
Moorings are available for visiting boats and a slipway with facilities for lifting out reasonable sized boats.
Members always offer a very warm welcome to visitors.
N.B. The site is security fenced.
Grid reference: TL 0274 964
Road access from Al southbound
Overnight mooring.
Situated within Nene Park upstream of Orton Lock the club is within easy reach of the City of Peterborough, with its Queensgate regional shopping centre and magnificent Norman Cathedral.
The club is home to some hundred craft of all types from micropluses to 55’ narrow boats.
The clubhouse is open every week-end and has a licensed bar, catering facilities, toilets and showers.
N.B. The club site is enclosed within a security fence.
Grid reference: TL 161 971
Road access from Oundle Road via Goldie Lane
Overnight mooring.
Emergency slipping.
More a ‘boaters’ club’ than a boat club the Association meets at the riverside Woolpack Public House at 8.00 pm on the first Wednesday of each month except August.
The membership embraces anyone with an interest in the river or coastal cruising.
Stanground backwater is the original course of the Nene and leads through Stanground Lock into Kings Dyke and the Middle Level. The village was the base for several barge fleets which worked the river and other fenland waterways. (Many interesting pictures of old Stanground decorate the Woolpack)
Grid reference: TL 203 975
Road access 29 North Street, Stanground, Peterborough
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The Middle Level Watermen’s club is based a few minutes walk from the centre of the historic town of March. A good shopping area and a market place that opens twice a week (Wed. & Sat.). By the town bridge there is a FREE pump-out & Elsan disposal station. March also has extensive short stay moorings and good pubs and restaurants. The club’s HQ at the Royal British Legion is a listed building dating back to the 1700’s.
St. Wendreda’s church in the town center contains the finest late medieval double hammer beam angel roof in the country. The 118 angels together with saints and apostles were all carved between 1470 and 1520.
Grid reference: IL 414 968
Road access from B1 099
Overnight mooring.