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I will look those up.

I have also updated the waterways use map (Welsh Rivers) - it can be found here.

Published 1920 - As the water flows; a record of adventures in a canoe on the rivers and trout streams of southern England

Barnes, Eleanor,Stratton, Helen 1927
Kent Stour Wye, Chartham,...

A great example - from 1870 The Canoeist, Chronicles of the canoe club
https://archive.org/details/canoeistorchroni00cano
It lists some of the trips made by members back to 1847

One of them was...

I am finding and documenting the evidence of use of boats on rivers in Britain. I hope this will show there always was a right for people to navigate non-tidal rivers (in unpowered craft) wherever...