... Uk Waterways Your waterways IWA Peterborough Branch
IWA Peterborough Branch shares a watching brief over the beautiful River Nene with the neighboring IWA Northampton Branch. Northampton covers the top half of the river, and Peterborough the bottom – the boundary falling at Thrapston 9 Arches Bridge. Our interest in the River Nene continues below the Dog-in-a-Doublet down the tidal Nene to the Wash.
Peterborough Branch also covers the entire Middle Level (which includes not only the Forty-Foot Drain and Horseway but on to the piled Welches Dam), and the Old Bedford River.
To encourage cruising of the Middle Levels section of the local waterways system the branch runs a Cruising Plaque award scheme.
This is available to all who can provide proof of navigation to the four extremities of the Middle Levels system, Holme, Nordelph, Ramsey and Stonea. The plaque can be obtained on submission of £7 (includes postage) with proof of the journey. Email peterborough@waterways.org.uk
The restoration of Horseways Channel and Welches Dam lock in the Anglian waterways system is the Peterborough Branch’s main concern.
Campaigning to open up a brand new, direct route between Boston in Lincolnshire and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, connecting the River Welland in the north to the River Nene in the south.
Together we can protect and restore our waterways; the UK’s 6,500 miles of canals and rivers need your help.
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