St Neots slipway (north)
A slipway on the River Great Ouse in St Neots, a few hundred metres north of the town bridge along the riverside path, within the same stretch of river as St Neots Riverside Park — part of a lock-and-weir navigation that runs from Bedford to the Wash at King's Lynn.
St Neots Riverside Park
The launch sits within St Neots Riverside Park, a public park run by Huntingdonshire District Council with a mile-long river frontage split either side of the water by the town bridge and linked by a pedestrian bridge. Willow-lined banks and open parkland give a gently graded approach to the water, home to swans, ducks and herons. The town bridge itself is a 1963 concrete structure that replaced a stone bridge, which in turn replaced a wooden crossing recorded here since the late 12th century.
St Neots Rowing Club, founded in 1865 and based on this reach, shares the water with cruising motorboats from the private Ouse Valley River Club nearby. Locks bound the reach on both sides — Eaton Socon Lock upstream and St Neots Lock, near Little Paxton, downstream — beyond which the river winds toward Paxton Pits, a former gravel-pit nature reserve in the Ouse valley known for its nightingales and cormorants.
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St Neots Lock, downstream near Little Paxton, and Eaton Socon Lock, upstream, are both on this reach; Great Ouse locks are generally user-operated and need an Environment Agency navigation key.
SourceThe reach carries powered cruiser traffic from the private Ouse Valley River Club, which keeps two slipways nearby, alongside rowing traffic from St Neots Rowing Club.
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