Downstream

Angler’s Map cited ‘good
bathing at all hours at
Solomon’s Hatch’ as did
George Leslie in his 1881
book Our River. But as to its
name, ‘I never could find out
who the particular Solomon
was that the place is named
after, and I know of no
hatches or little sluices about
here, but the bathing-place is
a capital institution for
Henley; the water is clear and
the bottom sandy. Between