Downstream

a very good place to drown
yourself in,’ comments the
narrator of Three Men in a
Boat, while Dickens’s
Dictionary of the Thames
notes, ‘It is notorious to all
rowing men and habitués of
the river.’ The Pool of Tears
in Alice in Wonderland was a
result of Carroll’s visit to
Sandford, while Michael
Llewelyn Davies, one of the
inspirations for Peter Pan,
drowned here in 1921. The