Downstream

obscurest glen’. The path
through the graveyard today
bears his name – Shelley’s
Walk. Perhaps it was this
Thames trip that inspired him
to write, ‘rivers are not like
roads, the work of the hands
of man; they imitate mind,
which wanders at will over
pathless deserts, and flows
through nature’s loveliest
recesses’.
In the sixteenth century
Lechlade had been a