Downstream

day swim from Cricklade to
Radcot Lock. ‘I’d like to
swim to Southend. If you
time it with the tide you can
do large distances in one go.’
He would swim through
central London doing ‘a
twenty-kilometre stint at
night and I could do it in
three or four nights’, and this
time he says he will approach
the PLA first.
While the Southend area is
clearly home to some