filthy; at Lechlade there were
navigation problems.
In the coming decade
leisure traffic replaced the
barges, and rowing and
punting became popular.
Victorian Lechlade was a
pretty little town, where boats
could be hired and the river
ran in ‘a goodly stream’
under the bridge. Yet I can
find very few reports of any
swimming in the period. In
1855 a man named Samuel
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