Bridge, around three-quarters
of a mile downstream and the
‘ugliest ever built’ according
to Dickens’s Dictionary of the
Thames, where Lord Byron
enjoyed a lengthy swim in
- On 11 August, the
nineteen-year-old wrote to
Elizabeth Pigot that he was
about to set off for the
Highlands. He would hire a
boat and visit the Hebrides
and then, if the weather were
good, set sail to Iceland. ‘Last