Great Bedwyn parish, Wiltshire to Joins the River Kennet at Hungerford, Berkshire · 10 miles
Fly Fishing on the River Dun (Kennet)
2 beats on the River Dun (Kennet) sell access by the day.
Where the River Dun (Kennet) runs
The river's course with every beat and fishery we list on it. Tap a marker for a quick read on price.
Fishing Beats on the River Dun (Kennet)
2 beats availableBrowse day tickets, syndicate rods, and permit fishing on the River Dun (Kennet). Each beat listing includes pricing, species, and booking details.
Clubs and syndicates on the River Dun (Kennet)
1 clubMembership bodies holding water on the River Dun (Kennet). Some sell day tickets alongside membership, others are open to members only, and a few run a waiting list.
About the River Dun (Kennet)
River Dun (Kennet) at a glance
- Length
- 10 miles
- Source
- Great Bedwyn parish, Wiltshire
- Mouth
- Joins the River Kennet at Hungerford, Berkshire
- Tributary of
- River Kennet
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Water type
- Chalk stream
Fish species
Anglers on the River Dun (Kennet) can target brown trout and grayling. Brown trout dominate most chalk stream beats; grayling, sea trout, and salmon appear on certain rivers and seasons.
The River Dun is a small chalk stream, about ten miles long, that rises in the parish of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire and flows north east into Berkshire to join the Kennet at Hungerford. This is not the River Dun that joins the Test in Hampshire. This one is a Kennet tributary, and the two have nothing to do with each other beyond the name.
The Dun, the Shalbourne and the Froxfield Stream are all classed as chalk streams, a globally rare kind of river, and the water here is clear and spring fed. The Kennet and Avon Canal follows the same valley, and the canal and the river share the low ground. Water power turned at least two mills along it, and a trout farm established in 1907 still hatches millions of eggs every year.
The river holds wild brown trout and grayling. Near Hungerford it runs through marshland and permanent pasture that is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and recent work there has kept cattle out of most of the channel to cut erosion and silt downstream, and to rebuild the banks as habitat for water voles.
The fishing on the lower Dun is held by a syndicate.
Worth a read
Hungerford Virtual Museum
Hungerford Fishery
Read itThe Hungerford Historical Association’s page on the town’s fishery: five miles of the Kennet and the Dun, and the commoners’ old right to fish it free on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The pictures are the best part: an 1851 advert letting the fishery, a 16lb fish caught at Hungerford in 1911, a 5lb 6oz River Dun trout from 1953, and Devlin’s 1977 map of the water.
FAQ
River Dun (Kennet) FAQs
Common questions about fishing the River Dun (Kennet), from day tickets and seasons to what to expect on the bank.
