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Never mind, you can always hire a barge on the nearby Oxford Canal.

In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.

It exported corn, cider and Charleton stone, and among its imports was limestone, brought up in barges to be fired in kilns and used on the soil.

From top to bottom the passage of a barge takes 28 minutes.

From top to bottom the passage of a barge takes 28 minutes.

Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.

On many occasions when the river has been high, the jetty has felt the heavy thud of a barge - the vibration is felt just as strongly in the Golden Lion Inn.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as grandstands

Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fishing boats - it is still the age of the sail.

In the early years china clay was brought by barge to Winsford, where it was trans-shipped into horse-drawn wagons and taken by road to the Potteries.

On many occasions when the river has been high, the jetty has felt the heavy thud of a barge - the vibration is felt just as strongly in the Golden Lion Inn.

The promenade was formerly the towing path for barges and boats with meadows to the south, but these are now tamed, and the southern part is now occupied by the very modern Rivermead Leisure Centre

Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by steam-driven vessels.

The mast of a sailing barge breaks an even horizon, whilst the falling tide exposes mooring chains.

To the right is now moored one of the Oxford College Barges seen in earlier views.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

Here, we see sailing barges beached on the far shore.

A Thames barge, fitted with a leeboard to assist in sailing such light draught craft, casts shortened shadows across the water.

Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by modern steam-driven vessels.

There was a time when barges could leave the Severn and sail 97 miles up the Wye as for as Hay, but by 1870 navigation was limited to the lower 37 miles.

Tugs towing flat-bottomed barges are still plying the Thames in this 1950s scene.

The riverside promenade is said to be built on a foundation of rubble-filled barges sunk in the 19th century.

The bascules carrying the roadway are in their fully raised position to allow tall-masted ships and sailing barges to pass through, giving a clearance of 140 feet and a width of 200 feet.