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Historic Towns & Picturesque Villages

Windmills
© Brian Arlow (view gallery)
Denver Windmill

High and Dry. Denver Sluice.
© Patrick Hogan (view gallery)
The passage from the Great Ouse across the tidal section and into Well Creek is not without problems. This boat went out at high tide and ended up on top of the sandbank. I had gone out the day before, the bank was visible then and I took the route shown in the lower picture. Thanks to a fellow boater for giving me permission to use the upper image.

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'Rambling Rose'
© Stephen Nunney (view gallery)
Moored on the River Great Ouse at Denver in Norfolk.

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Denver Sluice Complex, Denver
© Ken Ince (view gallery)

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A G Wright Sluice, Denver Sluice Complex, Denver
© Ken Ince (view gallery)
The Denver Sluice Complex. Vermuyden built Denver Sluice for the Company of Adventurers in 1652-3 immediately following, or as part of, his second phase of works in this area - the creation of what is now called the Ouse Washes. According to Samuel Wells (1830, Vol 1, pps 739-740) Vermuyden built it

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A G Wright Sluice, Denver Sluice Complex, Denver
© Ken Ince (view gallery)

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Denver Sluice Complex, Denver
© Ken Ince (view gallery)

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Denver Sluice Complex, Denver
© Ken Ince (view gallery)

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Denver Sluice Complex, Denver
© Ken Ince (view gallery)

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