Coronavirus: Will lockdown easing see more of us using rivers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53500222
Interesting stuff here about trespass and ownership of waterways
Wessex Water Alerts
Tuesday 7th December 2022:
Shore Road Sandbanks 13:36
Weds 16th March 2022:
Cabot Lane Poole 16:48
Mon 16th May 2022:
Shore Road Sandbanks 00:30, 197 minutes
‘The Crown owns the water you swim in, while the person who owns the property up to the bank is also said to own the bed of the river up to the middle.
"Therefore, if you are paddling - or swimming - over their land, not even touching it - you can still be said to be trespassing, because the law of trespass applies to airspace and waterspace above the land owned’ 2 years ago