Wargrave & Shiplake Regatta

[1] It is the local regatta of the villages of Wargrave in Berkshire and Shiplake in Oxfordshire.

It takes place annually on the Oxfordshire bank of the river, on the reach above Marsh Lock.

However, the Parish Magazine mentions that this followed a gap of eleven years, suggesting that a local regatta had been held at some time in the 1850s; and a silver rudder engraved Wargrave Regatta 1856 was recently found.

However no official records are known to establish the date of the first regatta exactly.

The course is about 400 yards (370 m) long, with the start close to Shiplake Railway Bridge.