The excellent Canoe Days Out Access Map provides advice on access conditions for paddlers new to individual rivers in England and Wales, and is compiled from the input and reports of canoeists and kayakers across the country.
Canoe Days Out now offers paddlers a quick reference guide to rivers with disputed access.
It includes reference to the River Itchen, which is categorised as a waterway on which paddlers may find themselves on the receiving end of "significant harrassment".
The River Itchen entry provides a link to a document titled "The Itchen Navigation: A Lawyer’s View of the Legal Issues". This clearly states that
"The General public right of navigation on the river and the Navigation remains to this day and cannot be stopped up or obstructed or disposed of except by proper legal process (observations of Kindersley V.C. in Hollis v. Bulpett, November 1862, not reported in the law reports). From the legal point of view the Itchen Navigation remains as a public navigable highway, subject to the factual constraints of water and passage."
The River Itchen entry provides a link to a document titled "The Itchen Navigation: A Lawyer’s View of the Legal Issues". This clearly states that
"The General public right of navigation on the river and the Navigation remains to this day and cannot be stopped up or obstructed or disposed of except by proper legal process (observations of Kindersley V.C. in Hollis v. Bulpett, November 1862, not reported in the law reports). From the legal point of view the Itchen Navigation remains as a public navigable highway, subject to the factual constraints of water and passage."
