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The River Nene is navigable from Northampton to the sea. Northamptonshire is known as the County of Spires and Squires. The hot spot there is Fotheringhay, a Yorkist and Tudor site. There was the birthplace of Richard III and the place of imprisonment and execution of Mary Queen of Scots, from which only the castle mound remains. The Association of Nene River Clubs is an umbrella organisation for the boat clubs on the River Nene. Highlight of the association’s year is the rally of boats held at one of the clubs during the Spring Bank Holiday. The burgee of ANRC is blue with a yellow four-pointed star.
All images and texts on this page by Ivan Sache, after the Association of Nene River River Clubs
website, 16 April 2006
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
Founded in 1911 the club is occupying an attractive island site. The club is
home to some 75 boats. The burgee of NBC is yellow with a blue border and a blue
five-pointed star.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
The club is situated on the 180 acre Thrapston Lake, a worked out gravel pit,
and is the home to some 200 dinghies. The burgee of MNSC is white with two red
chevrons and a blue five-pointed star.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
The club established in the 1960s 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 burgee of MNCC is white with
a red chevron and a blue five-pointed star.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
Oundle Cruising Club is a small, friendly club based in Oundle Marina midway
between Peterborough and Northampton, a fifteen minute walk away from the
historic town of Oundle. The burgee of OCC is blue with a yellow propeller and
the yellow letters OCC placed between the blades of the propeller.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
The club has moorings for 42 boats each being allocated 40ft of river bank in
the millstream to Warmington Mill. The burgee of EBC is blue with an horizontal
white stripe in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
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. The burgee of PCC is green with a white chevron.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
Situated within Nene Park upstream of Orton Lock the club is within easy
reach of the City of Peterborough, with its magnificent Norman Cathedral. The
club is home to some hundred craft of all types from micropluses to 55’ narrow
boats. It was formed on 29 November 1932 as the Nene Boating Club and changed
its name in 1948. In 2007, PYC will celebrate its Daimond Jubilee by organizing
the ANRC Rally. The burgee of PYC is blue with a white disc bordered red and
charged with the blue letter PYC, the Y being bigger.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
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. The
burgee of SBA is blue with a red border, except along the hoist, and the white
letters SBA.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
image by Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006
The Middle Level Watermen’s club is based a few minutes walk from the centre
of the historic town of March. 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. The burgee of MLWC is yellow with a thick black trident.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 2006