Ringwood to the Avon Causeway

The following photos and notes have been supplied by a canoeist who paddled from Fordingbridge to Christchurch one day in the spring of 2008. This ‘section’ describes the 12kms from Ringwood to the Avon Causeway

SU141048: Old railway bridge at Ringwood
With the railway gone, this bridge carries the Castleman Trailway over the river Avon. Viewed here from downstream. Each support comprises 3 pillars with horizontal beams, and is aligned across the flow on the bend in the river. This arrangement makes the bridge a great collector of trees and other debris

SU139033: River Avon above Avon Castle
The mixed trees on the right give away the fact that this is a residential area beside the Avon. Some very desirable waterside residences here

SU138030: Avon Castle
Environment Agency workers motoring past Avon Castle, a riverside property now divided into apartments. The tree in front of the building is an impressive plane tree, and there are others of similar size growing on the bank nearby

SU133008: Pumping StationThis pumping station is on the west bank of the river Avon, beside the A338. The sign warns passing boaters to keep clear of underwater apparatus

SZ139998: Shooting Hide beside the river Avon
One of a number of hides of the same construction, presumably for shooting waterfowl, on this part of the Avon
SZ145992: River Avon
Sabines Farm, viewed from the point at which the river divides into two streams (SZ141994). That shown is the eastern branch, which runs close to the B3347 at Avon
SZ149977: Avon Causeway bridge
The bridge over the river Avon at the eastern end of the Avon Causeway