Downstream

If ever there was a city
famous for its enjoyment of
river swimming it’s Oxford,
from skinny dipping dons on
the River Cherwell (a major
tributary of the Thames),
Victorian endurance
swimmers on the Isis (as the
Thames is locally known
above Iffley Lock), to
riverside family picnics and
bathing in the 1960s. Yet
while there were once several
official swimming areas