page_title: River Bourne, Kent
section_title: Navigation
hierarchical_section_title: River Bourne, Kent / Navigation
caption_attribution_description: English: River Bourne navigation blocked by vegetation near footbridge, Tributary of R.Medway, Kent, England
context_page_description: The River Bourne rises in the parish of Ightham, Kent and flows in a generally south easterly direction through the parishes of Borough Green, Platt, Plaxtol, West Peckham, Hadlow, and East Peckham where it joins the River Medway. In the 18th century the river was known as the Busty or Buster, the Shode or Sheet, but is not known by these names nowadays. A bourne is a type of stream, while shode means a branch of a river.
context_section_description: The Bourne was navigable from The Medway, by canoe, summer 2014, in open water, for 200 m until clogged by vegetation under the 1st footpath bridge; 500 m before the 'Man of Kent' pub, East Peckham.
  The river was reported navigable to the pub in winter (2012); 'the last 100 yards rocky and difficult'.
  The lack of mills for the 800 m below Little Mill (now 'Man of Kent') may indicate that loads could once be carried to the Tonbridge Road at East Peckham. A large tannery, using the Bourne's water at Little Mill, is shown in the 1891 OS map. The river by the tannery, before the road bridge, is shown with a cut-out suited to mooring.
caption: navigation blocked after 200 m by vegetation, summer 2014
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