Severn and Thames with a Canoe
1—The Start at Newtown
G. M. BOUMPHREY
This is the first of eight talks in which G. M. Boumphrey , the expert broadcaster but inexpert canoeist, is to describe his adventures in the trip he is making down Severn and Thames in a folding canoe. The start is from New- town, Montgomeryshire, the first stretch to Abermule Bridge is pretty exciting-the water rapid with shallows and rocks frequent. On down Severn ... Shrews-bury, Ironbridge, Bridgnorth, Worcester; possibly he will explore the tributaries Teme and Avon, and so to Gloucester. From here, where the water can be dangerous, he plans to take to the Gloucester and Berkeley canal and follow it until it joins the Stroudwater ; then overland to Cirencester. On reaching the Thames he is to drop down to Lechlade and on to his home at Mapledurham, north-west of Reading.
Though the journey is possible in a fortnight, he has no idea how long it will take him. He is to dawdle in the pleasant places, and will describe them and the inns he stops at and the adventures on the way.