Downstream

nowhere near the scale it used
to be, but it is back: from the
Bridge to Bridge swim
between Henley and Marlow,
to the Great River Swim from
Chiswick Pier, and the
Crowstone Crawl in the
Thames Estuary. Wild
swimming is more popular
than it has been for decades,
and the River Thames is what
Kate Rew, founder of the
Outdoor Swimming Society,
calls ‘a swimming super