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River stretch · Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Clifton Hampden Wharf

Nearest postcode OX14 3EE

Day ticket

Reported as council permit water

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From £5 a day

Tickets from Clifton Hampden Village Shop

  • Night fishing reported as not allowed
  • Left bank, 200 m — left and right are as you look downstream.
  • Rod licence needed

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Tickets and prices

Council permit — A permit sold by the local council.

Who controls it

Burcot & Clifton Hampden Parish Council

  • Council permit· £5 a day

    From a shop

    From Clifton Hampden Village Shop.

    Day-ticket fees go to St Michael's Church.

    This rule confirmed 4 October 2026

Rules

Types of fishing

  • Coarse
  • Lure

Catch and release only

Close season: 15 March to 15 June. Close season explanation.

  • Night fishing reported as not allowed

Rules

Fish care

  • Catch and release only

Camping and fires

  • No camping
  • No fires
  • No barbecues

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Visited by DT on 3 Sept 2026.

Page last updated 4 October 2026How verification works

Evidence (1)

  • Photograph of signage

  • Signage at the water · 4 October 2026

    Fishing details notice

    Fishing details notice

How do I get there?

Getting there

Easy access

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50 m from the car to the water, over grass.

On the bank

Park on the high street just down from the Church. The walk is around 50m and easy across a grassy surface.

Map of the way in

Boundary: Estimated. Drawn from local knowledge. The line is roughly right and its ends are a guess. How we know.

Photos of the way in

Path to one of the swims
Path to one of the swims

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    View from one of the swims

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Photographs show how the place looked when they were taken. Signs, prices and access change — check locally before you fish.

River level 0.06 m · within the usual range · read 05:00 on 2 November

The river today

From the Environment Agency gauge at Clifton Lock, River Thames (Long Wittenham).

River level · Stage
0.06 mabove the gauge’s own datumRead at 05:00 on 2 November.Steady over the last 6 hours.-0.03–0.26 m49 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).

Forecast for this area

Sunrise 07:02 · sunset 16:33

1025–1030 hPa48 hours
  • TodayOvercast12° / 7°13 mph NEWaning crescent, 32% lit
  • WedLight drizzle10° / 6°0.2 mm · 6%15 mph NEWaning crescent, 22% lit
  • ThuOvercast9° / 6°10 mph NEWaning crescent, 14% lit
  • FriLight drizzle10° / 7°0.4 mm · 13%7 mph NEWaning crescent, 7% lit
  • SatLight drizzle10° / 8°2.6 mm · 10%4 mph NWaning crescent, 3% lit
  • SunOvercast10° / 6°7 mph NENew moon, 1% lit
  • MonOvercast10° / 5°28%11 mph ENew moon, 0% lit

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

What’s in there?

What's in there

Species reported as present

  • Chub
  • Perch
  • Roach

Reported, not confirmed

  • Maybe bleak
  • Maybe dace

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Perch
Perch

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  • Roach
    Roach

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What has changed

What has changed

  • 20 Oct 2026One species removed
  • 14 Oct 2026Reported exclusions changed

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