Moorings on the River Chet

The River Chet is a tributary of the River Yare in south Norfolk. It rises at Poringland and runs 16.5 kilometres through Alpington, Bergh Apton and Thurton to Loddon. Boats can use it from Loddon Staithe, just below Loddon Mill, for about three and a half miles down to the Yare at Hardley Cross, a mile west of Reedham. The cross, put up in 1676, marks the old boundary between Norwich and Great Yarmouth.

The Chet is one of the seven navigable rivers of the Broads, and the Broads Authority is its navigation authority. It gives boats on the southern Broads a short side trip off the Yare, with the Hardley Flood nature reserve, partly managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, lying beside it.

Moorings on the River Chet are centred on Loddon and neighbouring Chedgrave, which share the river. Loddon is the only boating centre of its kind in South Norfolk, and the north of the town has many boatyards on the river that build, let and look after boats, alongside the staithe.