The
Witham Navigable Drains
Introduction
Not everyone's cup of Darjeeling perhaps but the complex network
of dykes near Boston, known as the Witham Navigable Drains, brings
out the explorer in you. On one occasion a farmer, in a broad Lincolnshire
accent shouted that he "hadn't seen a boat down 'ere in over
three year". This was admittedly at the top end of Castle Dyke
where I did wonder if "Little Mo", even with the benefit
of a V shaped hull, was going to make it! Make it she did though and
to lots of other corners of the WND system rarely visited by anything
other than small inflatables.. What follows is a small sample of the
photographic record of our 1998 adventure on the WND.....
Little
Mo leaves Cowbridge Lock
Maud Foster Drain,
the bitter end - no entry to the tidal Witham
Which
way now? to the right the East Fen Catchwater Drain, to the left,
the West Fen Catchwater. Lets go right......
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