Downstream

Cuckow Ware, Head Pile,
Pope’s Hole, Cotton’s Hole,
South Hope and Dickson’s
Hole. ‘This use of the word
Hole has died out in
England,’ explains The Eton
Book of the River, ‘but a
bathing hole is still a common
name for a bathing place in
the United States; it has no
derogatory sense such as it
now suggests to us.’
Eton was also the centre for
a number of swimming