being skilled in Swimming,
they were all drowned.’ But
others found it a perfect spot.
‘If there be a situation on the
whole river between Staines
Bridge and Windsor Bridge
pleasanter than another, it is
this of Hampton,’ wrote
Daniel Defoe in 1724. ‘The
river is high enough to be
navigable, and low enough to
be a little pleasantly rapid; so
that the stream looks always
cheerful, not slow and
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