Kitty Charter Available-KY

Kitty Charter Available-KY

When

04/05/2022    
All Day

Where

Kitty
The Town Wharf, Brewery Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 4LJ

Event Type

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General Charter Trip Bookings – Request a Date
Departs from Woking

Charter Kitty in the peaceful surroundings of the Basingstoke Canal at Woking, Surrey.
Sole use of the boat for your party
Maximum 12 passengers.
Up to 2 wheelchairs – conditions apply.
75 mins for £70
120 mins for £112
150 mins £140

Public Trip Times this day are at 11am, 1pm, 2.45pm.
If no bookings have been made on the trip of your choice, it may be possible to convert a public trip to a charter for your exclusive use.
Only the last trip can be extended to 120 / 150 mins.

For Conditions of Hire, click here.

Click here to complete your charter request.

YOU WILL RECEIVE AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, AND THE BOOKING TEAM WILL CONTACT YOU SHORTLY.
The direction the boat goes on the canal is decided by the boat captain on the day based on current conditions.

Usual trip for Kitty is east from the Town Wharf, immediately on the right is the award-winning The Lightbox Art Gallery and Museum, then we pass under the new pedestrian/cycle turnover bridge. As we head out of town Horsell Common (itself partly an SSSI) to our left, passing on the right the site of the old Spantons Timber Wharf, then past the old gas works winding hole on the left, while the Woking gas works were on the right. We then pass the base of an old crane, before heading past Britannia Wharf on the left.

Shortly after passing under Monument Bridge is the start of the Woodham Hall Estate dating from the 1930s, with a WWII V1 flying bomb crater next to the canal, while on the right the mid-1940’s Sheerwater Estate comes into view, built on the site of Surrey’s largest freshwater lake – now drained. We then turn around and retrace our journey, along this quasi-urban stretch of the canal.

The canal is an SSSI, and not only serves as a local recreational amenity but is also a notable wildlife habitat.

The alkaline water from the chalk springs at the western end of the canal mixing with the acidic water as the canal passes through the Surrey heathlands, has given rise to one of the largest varieties of aquatic plants and invertebrates in the United Kingdom.

As many as 25 of Britain’s 39 species of dragonflies and damselflies inhabit the canal.

You may get lucky and see a kingfisher that is considered to be a lucky bird. You can also see herons swans, ducks, geese, moorhens (often with young) and various local floras.

Cruise times may be extended in low water conditions.

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Location:

Kitty

Kitty

The Town Wharf, Brewery Road
Woking
Surrey
GU21 4LJ

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