Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

along the Thames Path, had
tennis, cricket and football
clubs, as well as a river
regatta, as with Lechlade I
can find few archival
references to swimming.
In the summer of 1866 a
one-mile race was held on the
Marlow Reach, as well as
‘several other swimming and
diving matches from the
Suspension Bridge’, although
the Annual Regatta and
Aquatic Sports in the 1890s

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