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I'm about to cycle the Four Counties Ring, which encompasses 110 miles of canal around me. What are the rules of camping on/near canals? Can I just jump over the nearest hedge and set up tent? Or should I try to find proper sites on the route. Many thanks for any advice. -- Kev |
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Kevin Stone wrote:
What are the rules of camping on/near canals? Camping on them isn't recommended unless it's /very/ cold. Tends to be a bit wet and people keep wanting to drive boats through your front door. [sorry] Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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I'm about to cycle the Four Counties Ring, which encompasses 110 miles
of canal around me. What are the rules of camping on/near canals? Can I just jump over the nearest hedge and set up tent? Or should I try to find proper sites on the route. Hope you're not going to be getting water from the canal shudders :-) Wild[1] camping is fine and not illegal in the slightest if you don't get caught. Well, that's not true in the slightest, but the worse they can do is ask you to leave. Camp somewhere out of sight and don't leave any litter and I can't see any problems. I'll be doing something similar for my LEJOG [now slipped to September :-( ] so let me know if you do end up in a prison cell. Mark. [1] Seems a silly term in when done in England. |
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In article ,
Gonzalez writes: Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild Camping* is the correct term. Indeed. But I suspect the qualifier was about the devaluation of the term "wild", when applied to a country that has no wilderness. Dartmoor is horribly overgrazed. Our river valleys are less spoiled - except where denuded of all nature by toxic residues from old mining works. -- Nick Kew Nick's manifesto: http://www.htmlhelp.com/~nick/ |
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Camping you mean in a tent!
whats wrong with roughin it, i know i have on many occassions just set out with sleeping bag and a very large garden refuge sack, keeps the sleep9ng bag dry. plus it is easier to carry without the tents poles and stuff as if food stuff ain't bulky enough. "Nick Kew" wrote in message ... In article , Gonzalez writes: Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild Camping* is the correct term. Indeed. But I suspect the qualifier was about the devaluation of the term "wild", when applied to a country that has no wilderness. Dartmoor is horribly overgrazed. Our river valleys are less spoiled - except where denuded of all nature by toxic residues from old mining works. -- Nick Kew Nick's manifesto: http://www.htmlhelp.com/~nick/ |
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Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild
Camping* is the correct term. Indeed. But I suspect the qualifier was about the devaluation of the term "wild", when applied to a country that has no wilderness. Correct. Though thinking about it England's got the odd big cat slinking around and a fast growing wild boar population that covers the country, so I shouldn't be so dismissive. |
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