Downstream

so beautiful and everyone so
kind. I remember swimming
in the Thames and there being
a bridge. It was a world apart
from our life in London. I
have never forgotten it.’
While early records of
swimming at Lechlade may
be scarce, it’s clear that
people have bathed here since
at least Victorian times, and
while it could be a dangerous
pastime by the early 1900s it
had evolved into more