River stretch · Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire
Big Corner
Nearest postcode OX144QF
Reported as free fishing
Verify locally before fishing.
Free
- Night fishing unknown
- Right bank, 200 m — left and right are as you look downstream.
- Rod licence needed
Source on fileHow we know
Information, not permission. Check locally before you fish.
4 things we do not know yet: parking and the way in, fish species and night fishing.
Add what you knowCan I fish there?
- Free· no charge
This rule confirmed 14 October 2026
Plus an Environment Agency rod licence — buy or check one at GOV.UK.
Rules
Types of fishing
- Coarse
Close season: 15 March to 15 June. Close season explanation.
- Night fishing unknown
Rules
No rules recorded. The club or fishery will have its own. Know them? Add them.
How do we know?
We hold a source, not a check
We hold a source for this, but nobody has checked every detail against it yet.
Page last updated 14 October 2026How verification works
Evidence (1)
- Other evidence
Other · 14 October 2026
Facebook Group multiple people say it is a free stretch. No-one disputes it.
How do I get there?
Near the water
- Didcot Angling Centre — Tackle shop, 2.8 miles away
- Gibbo's Tackle — Tackle shop, 2.9 miles away
- Bank access
- Not recorded
- Parking
- Not recorded
- Way in
- Not recorded
If you have fished here, tell us how to get there.
River level 0.05 m · within the usual range · read 06:00 today
The river today
From the Environment Agency gauge at Clifton Lock, River Thames (Long Wittenham).
- River level · Stage
- 0.05 mabove the gauge’s own datumRead at 06:00 today.Steady over the last 6 hours.0.04–0.24 m48 readings · 6 daysWithin the Environment Agency's typical range for this gauge (0.00 to 0.85 m).
Nothing newer has arrived from the gauge. These readings are as old as their timestamps say.
We report what the gauge says and when it said it. We do not judge whether a water is safe or worth fishing.
This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta).
What’s in there?
No species confirmed yet. A fish goes on a water's list once two anglers with accounts have reported catching it, once we have looked at a photograph of one, or once we have checked the water against a source that lists it.
No catches logged here yet. Log one and it helps everybody who reads this page next.
What has changed
What has changed
- 15 Oct 2026A river level gauge added
- 15 Oct 2026The nearest postcode added
- 14 Oct 2026How hard it is to reach added
- 14 Oct 2026Which bank it is on added
Anything else about this water
Anything elseSomething that changed, or something none of the boxes above asked about.
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Where to next
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