Pangbourne a village near to Rochester. It is well known for the church of St Oliver Taylor.
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

| Goring and Streatley Bridge | 3 miles, 7 furlongs | |
| Goring Lock Weir Exit No 1 | 3 miles, 6¾ furlongs | |
| Goring Moorings | 3 miles, 6¼ furlongs | |
| Gatehampton Railway Bridge | 2 miles, 4¾ furlongs | |
| Beale Park | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Pangbourne | ||
| The Swan PH (Pangbourne) | ¼ furlongs | |
| Whitchurch Lock Weir Entrance | ½ furlongs | |
| Whitchurch Lock | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Whitchurch Toll Bridge | 2 furlongs | |
| Whitchurch Lock Weir Exit | 2¼ furlongs | |
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Pangbourne is a large village and civil parish on the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire. Pangbourne has its own shops, schools, a railway station on the Great Western Line and a parish hall. Outside its grouped developed area is an independent school, Pangbourne College.












![The Swan, Pangbourne. As the writing on the wall makes clear, this riverside pub on Shooter's Hill is believed to date from 1642. Internally it is surprisingly large with a number of separate areas and there is a terrace overlooking the Thames on the other side. The pub gets a mention in Jerome K Jerome's classic 'Three Men in a Boat' - it was here that they abandoned their boat in the last chapter before getting a train to London for a good meal. According to one story, the county boundary between Berkshire and Oxfordshire used to pass through the building necessitating two separate licences and different closing times for each half of the bar. See [[4642616]] for a wider view. by Stephen McKay – 16 February 2022](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/09/94/7099482_959619cc_120x120.jpg)

















