Downstream

high street from the station,
where I can see the fifteenth-
century tower of St Mary’s
church just on the riverside.
At the other end of the bridge
is All Saints’ church, and
according to local lore the
two sisters who ‘founded’ the
churches lived on opposite
sides of the river. When they
visited each other they gave
instructions, either ‘Full
home, waterman’ or ‘Put
nigh’, and thus the two towns