Downstream
artist Amy Sharrocks is planning a mass swim across the Thames from Tower Bridge. ‘It’s our river,’ she says ...
This book is a trip downstream, from a marshy meadow in Gloucestershire all the way to Southend Pier, an ex ...
1 Trewsbury Mead– ...
Lechlade– Grafton Lock ‘There’s a little cup in the Cotswold hills Which a spring in a meadow bubbles and fill ...
My journey begins at Thames Head, at Trewsbury Mead, near the village of Kemble. This has been known since Vic ...
‘and when the traveler has found it, he is, after all, not sure of his find . . . and even the roa ...
girl in homely pinafore dipping a foot in the water as it gushes forth’, Harper found a buried well under ...
lake. Today Thames Head remains the river’s official source, according to the Environment Agency and Ordnance Survey, ...
section of the A433, with no footpath for pedestrians, and turn on to a path, then it’s over a stil ...
the source? I head down the hill and wade in shin-high water through a gate, the beige clay giving wa ...
landscape laid with stretches of water like stepping stones; a clump of shiny white snowdrops are tuck ...
mementos. Retracing my steps I meet a woman and a man walking a dog. They live seven miles away bu ...
lake? That’s it?’ he laughs. ‘No gift shop?’ Back at the Thames Head Inn the source of the Thames is said t ...
the pub for the past eight years. ‘And they come from all over the world. Last year we had two Japanese ...
in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, filmed by Danny Boyle. ‘It was supposed to be Thames Head, but ...
freezing cold winter a few years ago the pub’s chefs decided to go for a splash: ‘there was some significan ...
50p postcard of the source on 1 January 2000, and inside a stone bust of Father Thames on top of an old sewi ...
Homer,’ wrote the Scottish poet and author Tobias Smollett in 1801. In Victorian times some attributed the he ...
Smollett. ‘There is no obvious one, right answer. In the end we are not dealing with a scientific issue but in ...
Minister for Agriculture, Mr W.S. Morrison, who also happened to be MP for Cirencester and thus Thames Head, ...
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