DirectRooms.com - Boat Fans Ahead to Cambridge for The 2011 Xchanging Boat Race
The event is free to watching from one of many vantage points, including starting locations around Putney Bridge, Putney Embankment, Bishops Park, mid-point locations at Hammersmith and Barnes, and finishing points around Chiswick Bridge and Dukes Meadows. Large screens at Bishops Park and Furnival Gardens ensure spectators can see the complete race before and after crews have passed their location.
The Xchanging Boat Race features a contest between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The brainchild of Charles Merivale, a Cambridge student and his friend Charles Wordsworth ...