Downstream

in the Oxford area is further
downstream at Sandford
Lock. ‘The pools of Sandford
Lasher, in the backwater by
the lock, are dangerous for
bathing in, and have acquired
an ill name from the many
fatal accidents which have
happened there,’ explained
the 1893 Oarsman’s and
Angler’s Map of the River
Thames from Its Source to
London Bridge. ‘The pool
under Sandford Lasher . . . is