Canal camping

Kevin Stone said:

What are the rules of camping on/near canals?

Camping on them isn't recommended unless it's /very/ cold. Tends to be
a bit wet and people keep wanting to drive boats through your front door.

[sorry]

Pete.
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I'm about to cycle the Four Counties Ring, which encompasses 110 miles
of canal around me.

What are the rules of camping on/near canals? Can I just jump over the
nearest hedge and set up tent? Or should I try to find proper sites on
the route.

Hope you're not going to be getting water from the canal <shudders> :-)

Wild[1] camping is fine and not illegal in the slightest if you don't get
caught. Well, that's not true in the slightest, but the worse they can do
is ask you to leave. Camp somewhere out of sight and don't leave any
litter and I can't see any problems. I'll be doing something similar for
my LEJOG [now slipped to September :-( ] so let me know if you do end up in
a prison cell.

Mark.

[1] Seems a silly term in when done in England.

Mark Thompson said:

[1] Seems a silly term in when done in England.

Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild
Camping* is the correct term.

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Gonzalez said:

Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild
Camping* is the correct term.

Indeed. But I suspect the qualifier was about the devaluation of
the term "wild", when applied to a country that has no wilderness.

Dartmoor is horribly overgrazed. Our river valleys are less spoiled -
except where denuded of all nature by toxic residues from old mining works.

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Camping you mean in a tent!

whats wrong with roughin it, i know i have on many occassions just set out
with sleeping bag and a very large garden refuge sack, keeps the sleep9ng
bag dry. plus it is easier to carry without the tents poles and stuff as if
food stuff ain't bulky enough.

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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Gonzalez said:

Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild
Camping* is the correct term.

Indeed. But I suspect the qualifier was about the devaluation of
the term "wild", when applied to a country that has no wilderness.

Dartmoor is horribly overgrazed. Our river valleys are less spoiled -
except where denuded of all nature by toxic residues from old mining

works.

Quoted message said:

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Nick Kew

Nick's manifesto: http://www.htmlhelp.com/~nick/

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Not at all. I've just returned from three days on Dartmoor. *Wild
Camping* is the correct term.

Indeed. But I suspect the qualifier was about the devaluation of
the term "wild", when applied to a country that has no wilderness.

Correct. Though thinking about it England's got the odd big cat slinking
around and a fast growing wild boar population that covers the country, so
I shouldn't be so dismissive.