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| Dapdune Wharf | |
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 Steam launches at Dapdune Wharf | |
| Type | Wharf and boat-builders yard |
| Location | Wharf Road, Guildford |
| Coordinates | 51°14′35″N 0°34′45″W / 51.2431°N 0.5792°W |
| Area | Surrey |
| Owner | National Trust |
  Location of Dapdune Wharf in Surrey | |
Dapdune Wharf is a former industrial wharf and boat yard on the Wey and Godalming Navigations in Guildford, England, UK, close to the Surrey County Cricket Club ground. It is now maintained by the National Trust.
Originally a goods transshipment point, before the construction of the Godalming Navigation the principal cargos were timber from the Surrey forests and gunpowder from the works at Chilworth as the Guildford authorities refused to let it pass through the town centre for loading at the town wharf.[1] For a period of time at the beginning of the 20th Century, Dapdune Wharf was the centre of barge building on the Wey Navigation.
Dapdune is now the starting point for boat trips, including boat hire. The Visitor Centre has interactive displays, a smithy, a stable, and two of the three remaining Wey barges in the world - the Reliance, permanently damaged and kept in a graving (dry) dock, and Perseverance IV, still floating but in need of repair and the subject of a 2010 National Trust restoration appeal.[2]
Dapdune Wharf is now the head office of the Navigation. As part of the continued preservation of British history the National Trust has a group of volunteers, the Wey Navigation Research Group, researching and publishing information about the Godalming and Wey Navigation.
- ^ Wardle, Alan R (2003). The Wey Navigation. Guildford: Surrey Industrial History Group. pp. 103–104. ISBN 0-9538122-2-7.
- ^ "River Wey Barge – Perseverance lV" (PDF). National Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011.