Setting out from our Reading Boat Base you can make your way towards Oxford and Lechlade it is a lovely route, which youc an immediately start to enjoy heading out from our Reading Boat base. 

This is known as the Upper Thames and along this route you can really enjoy a great mix of peace, beauty, wildlife and lovely landscape, heading towards the stunning architecture of Oxford. Oxford has been a seat of learning since about 1096, just 30 years  after the Normans had invaded Britain. You can enjoy all this with your Canal Boat as your floating hotel, the best of the countryside, stunning and unique architecture with world leading museums, galleries and a lively social life to suit all tastes along the way.

Onwards from Oxford to the highest navigable point and the source is Lechlade, you can enjoy all this in a round trip of about a week, got to be worth considering…

Caversham Reading on Thames

Purley on Thames

Mapledurham via Thames

Pangbourne

Lower Basildon

Streatley on the Thames

Goring upon Thames

Cleeve

Southstoke

Moulsford

Northstoke

Winterbrook

Wallingford

Crowmarsh Gifford

Benson

Shillingford

Littleworth

Little Wittenham on the Thames

Dorchester

Burcot

Clifton Hampden

Culham

Appleford

Abingdon

Lower Radley & Radley

Sandford on Thames

Kennington and little London

Iffley

Osney and Osney Lock

Oxford

Lechlade