Downstream

above the springs at Seven
Springs with the inscription:
‘HIC TUUS O TAMESINE
PATER SEPTEMGEMINUS
FONS’ – ‘Here, O Father
Thames, is your sevenfold
source’.
Whether or not Thames
Head is the source, it’s near
impossible to swim from
here. Instead it is downstream
near the town of Lechlade
where the Thames meets the
Severn Canal and the River