Your floating hotel on the Canals and Rivers of the UK

Our guide to the waterways of the UK in detail.

Pictures of the River Severn,

Tewkesbury to Worcester .

Only a short section of the middle Severn is navigable to our boats. Below Gloucester lies the difficult waters of the Severn estuary, now by passed by the Gloucester and Sharpness canal. Above Stourport the river has never been improved and the absence of weirs and locks makes navigation for our boats impossible.

At Tewkesbury the river divides immediately after Upper Lode Lock, the right hand branch is the start of the River Avon and up it are the moorings for Tewkesbury whose abbey has been tantalisingly visible on the right bank for a while. The main channel goes under King's John's bridge and continues its stately way up past Upton on another sixteen miles length up to Worcester with no locks and only Upton bridge over it. This stretch however now sees revived commercial traffic with motorised barges collecting gravel from the gravel pits and delivering it to the processing plant further up river. Unfortunately the state of the lower Severn has prevented the company being able to develop this to Gloucester as they wish.

More pictures of this river?

Stourport to Worcester

A history of this river. / General information on the river.

Find our information about other canals and rivers on the canal index page.

We will not be on this part of the river in 2008

If you have any questions then do ring us on 07977 229103
or email us at martinreed@reedboats.co.uk