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EPISODE · Oct 21, 2021 · 24 MIN

The right to paddle?

from Open Country · host BBC Radio 4

Did you buy a kayak or perhaps a paddle board after lockdown? And do you know where you can go now? According to Nick Hayes - who lives on a houseboat on the River Thames - you can only legally access around three to four percent of England's waterways. Scotland has the right to roam. Nick is the author of The Book of Trespass and uses his canoe to go shopping and take out his rubbish too. This is fine on his section of the Thames, but he has been confronted on other rivers .... so who owns our waterways, and what exactly are the rules?With further contribution from Ben Seal of British Canoeing, and produced in Bristol by Miles Warde.

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