Downstream

the River Thames than
Marlow, declared Dickens’s
Dictionary of the Thames. It
was the perfect place for
boating, camping holidays or
‘sketching purposes’, and the
water teemed with fish.
Jerome K. Jerome found
Marlow ‘one of the
pleasantest river centres I
know of’, where people
‘bathe before breakfast’. Yet
while the town, eight miles
downstream from Henley