countryside. When you are in
the river you might see
nothing except the water and
the bank, and then suddenly
you are jolted upright by the
blue of a kingfisher flashing
across your vision.’
In 2005 property developer
Andy Nation, the first person
to swim the length of the non-
tidal Thames, started his
journey about a mile
upstream from Lechlade at
the Round House, ‘because
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