Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
ABOVE OXFORD.�By W. SENIOR. PAGE
The Source of the Thames�Early Names of the River�Seven Springs�Thames Head�The Churn and its Course�Thames and Severn Canal�Cricklade�Castle Eaton�Inglesham�Fairford and the Coln�Lechlade�The First Lock�Some Thames Flowers�Old Buscot�Hart�s Weir�Bird Life�Radcot Bridge�Eddying Pools and Golden Shallows�Canal-like Reaches�Tadpole Bridge�Bampton�Duxford Ferry�Canute�s Country�The Windrush�The Oldest Bridge�Old Father Thames�Disused Weir-pools�Bablock Hythe, Stanton Harcourt, and Cumnor�Skinner�s Weir and Pinkhill Lock�Eynsham Weir, Bridge, and Cross�The Evenlode�Witham Hill�Thames Angling�Godstow�King�s Weir�Port Meadow�Folly Bridge 1
CHAPTER II.
OXFORD TO ABINGDON.�By D. MACCOLL.
Oxford, from the Upper River; the New Town�The Courses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge�The Houses of the Regulars and Friars�The University and Parish Churches�The Halls and Colleges of the Seculars, from the Thirteenth Century to the Reformation�Jacobean Oxford�Classic Oxford�Convenient Oxford�The Architectural Revival�The Undergraduate Revival�The River below Folly Bridge, and the Invention of Rowing�The Navigation Shape of the River�Floods�The Barges�Iffley�Littlemore�Kennington�Radley�Sandford�Nuneham 33
CHAPTER III.
ABINGDON TO STREATLEY.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Abingdon�The Abbey�St. Nicholas� Church�The Market Cross�The Ancient Stone Cross�St. Helen�s Church�Christ�s Hospital�Culham�First View of Wittenham Clump�Clifton Hampden�The �Barley Mow��A River-side Solitude�Day�s Lock�Union of the Thames and the Isis�Dorchester�The Abbey Church�Sinodun Hill�Shillingford Bridge�Bensington�The Church�Crowmarsh Giffard�Wallingford�Mongewell�Newton Murren�Moulsford�The �Beetle and Wedge��Cleeve Lock�Streatley 62
CHAPTER IV.
STREATLEY TO HENLEY.�By W. SENIOR.
Streatley, the Artists� Mecca�Goring versus Streatley�Goring from the Toll-gate�Streatley Mill�Weirs and Backwaters�Antiquity of Streatley and Goring�Goring Church�Common Wood�Basildon Ferry and Hart�s Wood�A Thames Osier Farm�Whitchurch Lock�Pangbourne�Hardwicke House and Mapledurham�Caversham Bridge�Reading and its Abbey�A Divergence to the Kennet, with calls at Marlborough, Hungerford, and Newbury�The Charms of Sonning��The Loddon slow, with verdant alders crowned��St. Patrick�s Stream�Shiplake Weir�Wargrave and Bolney Court�Park Place�Marsh Lock�Remarks on Thames Angling�The Approach to Henley 85
CHAPTER V.
HENLEY TO MAIDENHEAD.�By the Rev. PROFESSOR BONNEY, F.R.S.
The Best Bit of the River�Henley�The Church�The �Red Lion��Shenstone�s Lines�Henley Regatta�The First University Boat-race�Fawley Court�Remenham�Hambledon Lock�Medmenham Abbey and the Franciscans�Dissolution of the Order�Hurley�Lady Place and its History�A Strange Presentiment�Bisham Abbey and its Ghost�Bisham Church�Great Marlow�The Church and its Curiosities��Puppy Pie��Quarry Woods�The Thames Swans and the Vintners� Company�Cookham and Cliefden�Hedsor�Cliefden Woods�The House�Raymead�The Approach to Maidenhead [Pg vi] 113
CHAPTER VI.
MAIDENHEAD TO WINDSOR.�By H. SCH�TZ WILSON.
Maidenhead�Bray�Jesus Hospital�The Harbour of Refuge�Frederick Walker�A Boat-race�Monkey Island�The River�Surley Hall�Boveney Lock�Eton�Windsor�St. George�s Chapel�The Castle�Mr. R. R. Holmes�James I.�Surrey�The Merry Wives of Windsor 143
CHAPTER VII.
WINDSOR TO HAMPTON COURT.�By GODFREY WORDSWORTH TURNER.
Leaving Windsor�Eton, its History and its Worthies�The College Buildings�Windsor Park�The Long Walk�The Albert Bridge�Datchet and Falstaff�Old Windsor��Perdita�s� Grave�The Tapestry Works�The �Bells of Ouseley��Riverside Inns�The Loves of Harry and Anne Boleyn�Magna Charter Island�Runnymede�The Poet of Cooper�s Hill�Fish at Bell Weir�A Neglected Dainty�Egham and Staines�John Emery�Penton Hook�Laleham�Dr. Arnold�Chertsey�The Lock and Bridge�Albert Smith and his Brother�Chertsey Abbey�Black Cherry Fair�Cowley the Poet�A Scene from �Oliver Twist��St. Ann�s Hill�Weybridge�Oaklands and the Grotto�Shepperton Lock and Ferry�Halliford�Walton�The Scold�s Bridle�Sunbury�Hampton�Moulsey Hurst and its Sporting Associations�Hampton Court Bridge 161
CHAPTER VIII.
HAMPTON COURT TO RICHMOND.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Hampton Court�Thames Ditton: The �Swan��The Church�Surbiton�Kingston: The Coronation Stone�Teddington�Twickenham�Eel Pie Island�Petersham�Richmond Park�Approach to Richmond 201
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CHAPTER I.
ABOVE OXFORD.�By W. SENIOR. PAGE
The Source of the Thames�Early Names of the River�Seven Springs�Thames Head�The Churn and its Course�Thames and Severn Canal�Cricklade�Castle Eaton�Inglesham�Fairford and the Coln�Lechlade�The First Lock�Some Thames Flowers�Old Buscot�Hart�s Weir�Bird Life�Radcot Bridge�Eddying Pools and Golden Shallows�Canal-like Reaches�Tadpole Bridge�Bampton�Duxford Ferry�Canute�s Country�The Windrush�The Oldest Bridge�Old Father Thames�Disused Weir-pools�Bablock Hythe, Stanton Harcourt, and Cumnor�Skinner�s Weir and Pinkhill Lock�Eynsham Weir, Bridge, and Cross�The Evenlode�Witham Hill�Thames Angling�Godstow�King�s Weir�Port Meadow�Folly Bridge 1
CHAPTER II.
OXFORD TO ABINGDON.�By D. MACCOLL.
Oxford, from the Upper River; the New Town�The Courses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge�The Houses of the Regulars and Friars�The University and Parish Churches�The Halls and Colleges of the Seculars, from the Thirteenth Century to the Reformation�Jacobean Oxford�Classic Oxford�Convenient Oxford�The Architectural Revival�The Undergraduate Revival�The River below Folly Bridge, and the Invention of Rowing�The Navigation Shape of the River�Floods�The Barges�Iffley�Littlemore�Kennington�Radley�Sandford�Nuneham 33
CHAPTER III.
ABINGDON TO STREATLEY.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Abingdon�The Abbey�St. Nicholas� Church�The Market Cross�The Ancient Stone Cross�St. Helen�s Church�Christ�s Hospital�Culham�First View of Wittenham Clump�Clifton Hampden�The �Barley Mow��A River-side Solitude�Day�s Lock�Union of the Thames and the Isis�Dorchester�The Abbey Church�Sinodun Hill�Shillingford Bridge�Bensington�The Church�Crowmarsh Giffard�Wallingford�Mongewell�Newton Murren�Moulsford�The �Beetle and Wedge��Cleeve Lock�Streatley 62
CHAPTER IV.
STREATLEY TO HENLEY.�By W. SENIOR.
Streatley, the Artists� Mecca�Goring versus Streatley�Goring from the Toll-gate�Streatley Mill�Weirs and Backwaters�Antiquity of Streatley and Goring�Goring Church�Common Wood�Basildon Ferry and Hart�s Wood�A Thames Osier Farm�Whitchurch Lock�Pangbourne�Hardwicke House and Mapledurham�Caversham Bridge�Reading and its Abbey�A Divergence to the Kennet, with calls at Marlborough, Hungerford, and Newbury�The Charms of Sonning��The Loddon slow, with verdant alders crowned��St. Patrick�s Stream�Shiplake Weir�Wargrave and Bolney Court�Park Place�Marsh Lock�Remarks on Thames Angling�The Approach to Henley 85
CHAPTER V.
HENLEY TO MAIDENHEAD.�By the Rev. PROFESSOR BONNEY, F.R.S.
The Best Bit of the River�Henley�The Church�The �Red Lion��Shenstone�s Lines�Henley Regatta�The First University Boat-race�Fawley Court�Remenham�Hambledon Lock�Medmenham Abbey and the Franciscans�Dissolution of the Order�Hurley�Lady Place and its History�A Strange Presentiment�Bisham Abbey and its Ghost�Bisham Church�Great Marlow�The Church and its Curiosities��Puppy Pie��Quarry Woods�The Thames Swans and the Vintners� Company�Cookham and Cliefden�Hedsor�Cliefden Woods�The House�Raymead�The Approach to Maidenhead [Pg vi] 113
CHAPTER VI.
MAIDENHEAD TO WINDSOR.�By H. SCH�TZ WILSON.
Maidenhead�Bray�Jesus Hospital�The Harbour of Refuge�Frederick Walker�A Boat-race�Monkey Island�The River�Surley Hall�Boveney Lock�Eton�Windsor�St. George�s Chapel�The Castle�Mr. R. R. Holmes�James I.�Surrey�The Merry Wives of Windsor 143
CHAPTER VII.
WINDSOR TO HAMPTON COURT.�By GODFREY WORDSWORTH TURNER.
Leaving Windsor�Eton, its History and its Worthies�The College Buildings�Windsor Park�The Long Walk�The Albert Bridge�Datchet and Falstaff�Old Windsor��Perdita�s� Grave�The Tapestry Works�The �Bells of Ouseley��Riverside Inns�The Loves of Harry and Anne Boleyn�Magna Charter Island�Runnymede�The Poet of Cooper�s Hill�Fish at Bell Weir�A Neglected Dainty�Egham and Staines�John Emery�Penton Hook�Laleham�Dr. Arnold�Chertsey�The Lock and Bridge�Albert Smith and his Brother�Chertsey Abbey�Black Cherry Fair�Cowley the Poet�A Scene from �Oliver Twist��St. Ann�s Hill�Weybridge�Oaklands and the Grotto�Shepperton Lock and Ferry�Halliford�Walton�The Scold�s Bridle�Sunbury�Hampton�Moulsey Hurst and its Sporting Associations�Hampton Court Bridge 161
CHAPTER VIII.
HAMPTON COURT TO RICHMOND.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Hampton Court�Thames Ditton: The �Swan��The Church�Surbiton�Kingston: The Coronation Stone�Teddington�Twickenham�Eel Pie Island�Petersham�Richmond Park�Approach to Richmond 201
Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
ABOVE OXFORD.�By W. SENIOR. PAGE
The Source of the Thames�Early Names of the River�Seven Springs�Thames Head�The Churn and its Course�Thames and Severn Canal�Cricklade�Castle Eaton�Inglesham�Fairford and the Coln�Lechlade�The First Lock�Some Thames Flowers�Old Buscot�Hart�s Weir�Bird Life�Radcot Bridge�Eddying Pools and Golden Shallows�Canal-like Reaches�Tadpole Bridge�Bampton�Duxford Ferry�Canute�s Country�The Windrush�The Oldest Bridge�Old Father Thames�Disused Weir-pools�Bablock Hythe, Stanton Harcourt, and Cumnor�Skinner�s Weir and Pinkhill Lock�Eynsham Weir, Bridge, and Cross�The Evenlode�Witham Hill�Thames Angling�Godstow�King�s Weir�Port Meadow�Folly Bridge 1
CHAPTER II.
OXFORD TO ABINGDON.�By D. MACCOLL.
Oxford, from the Upper River; the New Town�The Courses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge�The Houses of the Regulars and Friars�The University and Parish Churches�The Halls and Colleges of the Seculars, from the Thirteenth Century to the Reformation�Jacobean Oxford�Classic Oxford�Convenient Oxford�The Architectural Revival�The Undergraduate Revival�The River below Folly Bridge, and the Invention of Rowing�The Navigation Shape of the River�Floods�The Barges�Iffley�Littlemore�Kennington�Radley�Sandford�Nuneham 33
CHAPTER III.
ABINGDON TO STREATLEY.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Abingdon�The Abbey�St. Nicholas� Church�The Market Cross�The Ancient Stone Cross�St. Helen�s Church�Christ�s Hospital�Culham�First View of Wittenham Clump�Clifton Hampden�The �Barley Mow��A River-side Solitude�Day�s Lock�Union of the Thames and the Isis�Dorchester�The Abbey Church�Sinodun Hill�Shillingford Bridge�Bensington�The Church�Crowmarsh Giffard�Wallingford�Mongewell�Newton Murren�Moulsford�The �Beetle and Wedge��Cleeve Lock�Streatley 62
CHAPTER IV.
STREATLEY TO HENLEY.�By W. SENIOR.
Streatley, the Artists� Mecca�Goring versus Streatley�Goring from the Toll-gate�Streatley Mill�Weirs and Backwaters�Antiquity of Streatley and Goring�Goring Church�Common Wood�Basildon Ferry and Hart�s Wood�A Thames Osier Farm�Whitchurch Lock�Pangbourne�Hardwicke House and Mapledurham�Caversham Bridge�Reading and its Abbey�A Divergence to the Kennet, with calls at Marlborough, Hungerford, and Newbury�The Charms of Sonning��The Loddon slow, with verdant alders crowned��St. Patrick�s Stream�Shiplake Weir�Wargrave and Bolney Court�Park Place�Marsh Lock�Remarks on Thames Angling�The Approach to Henley 85
CHAPTER V.
HENLEY TO MAIDENHEAD.�By the Rev. PROFESSOR BONNEY, F.R.S.
The Best Bit of the River�Henley�The Church�The �Red Lion��Shenstone�s Lines�Henley Regatta�The First University Boat-race�Fawley Court�Remenham�Hambledon Lock�Medmenham Abbey and the Franciscans�Dissolution of the Order�Hurley�Lady Place and its History�A Strange Presentiment�Bisham Abbey and its Ghost�Bisham Church�Great Marlow�The Church and its Curiosities��Puppy Pie��Quarry Woods�The Thames Swans and the Vintners� Company�Cookham and Cliefden�Hedsor�Cliefden Woods�The House�Raymead�The Approach to Maidenhead [Pg vi] 113
CHAPTER VI.
MAIDENHEAD TO WINDSOR.�By H. SCH�TZ WILSON.
Maidenhead�Bray�Jesus Hospital�The Harbour of Refuge�Frederick Walker�A Boat-race�Monkey Island�The River�Surley Hall�Boveney Lock�Eton�Windsor�St. George�s Chapel�The Castle�Mr. R. R. Holmes�James I.�Surrey�The Merry Wives of Windsor 143
CHAPTER VII.
WINDSOR TO HAMPTON COURT.�By GODFREY WORDSWORTH TURNER.
Leaving Windsor�Eton, its History and its Worthies�The College Buildings�Windsor Park�The Long Walk�The Albert Bridge�Datchet and Falstaff�Old Windsor��Perdita�s� Grave�The Tapestry Works�The �Bells of Ouseley��Riverside Inns�The Loves of Harry and Anne Boleyn�Magna Charter Island�Runnymede�The Poet of Cooper�s Hill�Fish at Bell Weir�A Neglected Dainty�Egham and Staines�John Emery�Penton Hook�Laleham�Dr. Arnold�Chertsey�The Lock and Bridge�Albert Smith and his Brother�Chertsey Abbey�Black Cherry Fair�Cowley the Poet�A Scene from �Oliver Twist��St. Ann�s Hill�Weybridge�Oaklands and the Grotto�Shepperton Lock and Ferry�Halliford�Walton�The Scold�s Bridle�Sunbury�Hampton�Moulsey Hurst and its Sporting Associations�Hampton Court Bridge 161
CHAPTER VIII.
HAMPTON COURT TO RICHMOND.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Hampton Court�Thames Ditton: The �Swan��The Church�Surbiton�Kingston: The Coronation Stone�Teddington�Twickenham�Eel Pie Island�Petersham�Richmond Park�Approach to Richmond 201
CHAPTER I.
ABOVE OXFORD.�By W. SENIOR. PAGE
The Source of the Thames�Early Names of the River�Seven Springs�Thames Head�The Churn and its Course�Thames and Severn Canal�Cricklade�Castle Eaton�Inglesham�Fairford and the Coln�Lechlade�The First Lock�Some Thames Flowers�Old Buscot�Hart�s Weir�Bird Life�Radcot Bridge�Eddying Pools and Golden Shallows�Canal-like Reaches�Tadpole Bridge�Bampton�Duxford Ferry�Canute�s Country�The Windrush�The Oldest Bridge�Old Father Thames�Disused Weir-pools�Bablock Hythe, Stanton Harcourt, and Cumnor�Skinner�s Weir and Pinkhill Lock�Eynsham Weir, Bridge, and Cross�The Evenlode�Witham Hill�Thames Angling�Godstow�King�s Weir�Port Meadow�Folly Bridge 1
CHAPTER II.
OXFORD TO ABINGDON.�By D. MACCOLL.
Oxford, from the Upper River; the New Town�The Courses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge�The Houses of the Regulars and Friars�The University and Parish Churches�The Halls and Colleges of the Seculars, from the Thirteenth Century to the Reformation�Jacobean Oxford�Classic Oxford�Convenient Oxford�The Architectural Revival�The Undergraduate Revival�The River below Folly Bridge, and the Invention of Rowing�The Navigation Shape of the River�Floods�The Barges�Iffley�Littlemore�Kennington�Radley�Sandford�Nuneham 33
CHAPTER III.
ABINGDON TO STREATLEY.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Abingdon�The Abbey�St. Nicholas� Church�The Market Cross�The Ancient Stone Cross�St. Helen�s Church�Christ�s Hospital�Culham�First View of Wittenham Clump�Clifton Hampden�The �Barley Mow��A River-side Solitude�Day�s Lock�Union of the Thames and the Isis�Dorchester�The Abbey Church�Sinodun Hill�Shillingford Bridge�Bensington�The Church�Crowmarsh Giffard�Wallingford�Mongewell�Newton Murren�Moulsford�The �Beetle and Wedge��Cleeve Lock�Streatley 62
CHAPTER IV.
STREATLEY TO HENLEY.�By W. SENIOR.
Streatley, the Artists� Mecca�Goring versus Streatley�Goring from the Toll-gate�Streatley Mill�Weirs and Backwaters�Antiquity of Streatley and Goring�Goring Church�Common Wood�Basildon Ferry and Hart�s Wood�A Thames Osier Farm�Whitchurch Lock�Pangbourne�Hardwicke House and Mapledurham�Caversham Bridge�Reading and its Abbey�A Divergence to the Kennet, with calls at Marlborough, Hungerford, and Newbury�The Charms of Sonning��The Loddon slow, with verdant alders crowned��St. Patrick�s Stream�Shiplake Weir�Wargrave and Bolney Court�Park Place�Marsh Lock�Remarks on Thames Angling�The Approach to Henley 85
CHAPTER V.
HENLEY TO MAIDENHEAD.�By the Rev. PROFESSOR BONNEY, F.R.S.
The Best Bit of the River�Henley�The Church�The �Red Lion��Shenstone�s Lines�Henley Regatta�The First University Boat-race�Fawley Court�Remenham�Hambledon Lock�Medmenham Abbey and the Franciscans�Dissolution of the Order�Hurley�Lady Place and its History�A Strange Presentiment�Bisham Abbey and its Ghost�Bisham Church�Great Marlow�The Church and its Curiosities��Puppy Pie��Quarry Woods�The Thames Swans and the Vintners� Company�Cookham and Cliefden�Hedsor�Cliefden Woods�The House�Raymead�The Approach to Maidenhead [Pg vi] 113
CHAPTER VI.
MAIDENHEAD TO WINDSOR.�By H. SCH�TZ WILSON.
Maidenhead�Bray�Jesus Hospital�The Harbour of Refuge�Frederick Walker�A Boat-race�Monkey Island�The River�Surley Hall�Boveney Lock�Eton�Windsor�St. George�s Chapel�The Castle�Mr. R. R. Holmes�James I.�Surrey�The Merry Wives of Windsor 143
CHAPTER VII.
WINDSOR TO HAMPTON COURT.�By GODFREY WORDSWORTH TURNER.
Leaving Windsor�Eton, its History and its Worthies�The College Buildings�Windsor Park�The Long Walk�The Albert Bridge�Datchet and Falstaff�Old Windsor��Perdita�s� Grave�The Tapestry Works�The �Bells of Ouseley��Riverside Inns�The Loves of Harry and Anne Boleyn�Magna Charter Island�Runnymede�The Poet of Cooper�s Hill�Fish at Bell Weir�A Neglected Dainty�Egham and Staines�John Emery�Penton Hook�Laleham�Dr. Arnold�Chertsey�The Lock and Bridge�Albert Smith and his Brother�Chertsey Abbey�Black Cherry Fair�Cowley the Poet�A Scene from �Oliver Twist��St. Ann�s Hill�Weybridge�Oaklands and the Grotto�Shepperton Lock and Ferry�Halliford�Walton�The Scold�s Bridle�Sunbury�Hampton�Moulsey Hurst and its Sporting Associations�Hampton Court Bridge 161
CHAPTER VIII.
HAMPTON COURT TO RICHMOND.�By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST.
Hampton Court�Thames Ditton: The �Swan��The Church�Surbiton�Kingston: The Coronation Stone�Teddington�Twickenham�Eel Pie Island�Petersham�Richmond Park�Approach to Richmond 201
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