CONTENTS

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Introduction[1]
CHAPTER I
Cirencester—Source of the Thames—Kemble—Ashton Keynes—Cricklade—St. Augustine’s Well[8]
CHAPTER II
Castle Eaton—Kempsford—By the Thames and Severn Canal to Inglesham Round House—Lechlade—Fairford—Eaton Hastings Weir—Kelmscott—Radcot Bridge[50]
CHAPTER III
Great Faringdon—Buckland—Bampton-in-the-Bush—Cote—Shifford[110]
CHAPTER IV
Harvests of the Thames: Willows, Osiers, Rushes[128]
CHAPTER V
New Bridge, The Oldest on the Thames—Standlake—Gaunt’s House—Northmoor—Stanton Harcourt—Besselsleigh[138]
CHAPTER VI
Cumnor, and the Tragedy of Amy Robsart[161]
CHAPTER VII
Wytham—The Old Road—Binsey and the Oratory of St. Frideswide—the Vanished Village of Seacourt—Godstow and “Fair Rosamond”—Medley—Folly Bridge[186]
CHAPTER VIII
Iffley, and the Way Thither—Nuneham, in Storm and in Sunshine[200]
CHAPTER IX
Abingdon[216]
CHAPTER X
Sutton Courtney—Long Wittenham—Little Wittenham—Clifton Hampden—Day’s Lock and Sinodun[234]
CHAPTER XI
Dorchester—Benson[260]
CHAPTER XII
Wallingford—Goring[272]
CHAPTER XIII
Streatley—Basildon—Pangbourne—Mapledurham—Purley[293]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SEPARATE PLATES

At Ashton Keynes[Frontispiece]
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Cirencester Church: Showing the Great Buttress[11]
The Old Mill House, Ashton Keynes[23]
The Infant Thames, Ashton Keynes[31]
Approach to Cricklade[35]
St. Sampson, Cricklade[39]
Strainer-Buttress, St. Sampson’s, Cricklade[43]
“Lertoll Well”[43]
The Iron Girder Bridge, Castle Eaton[51]
The Old Bridge, Castle Eaton[51]
Castle Eaton Church: Showing Sanctus-Bell Turret[55]
The Thames and Severn Canal, Near Kempsford[55]
Kempsford Church[61]
Inglesham Round House[67]
A Street in Fairford[71]
Lechlade[75]
Fairford, from the River Coln[79]
The Great West Window, Fairford, Displaying the “Doom”[83]
Monument in the Park, Fairford, where the Famous Windows were Buried[87]
Kelmscott Manor[95]
Kelmscott Church[99]
Radcot Bridge[103]
A Thames-side Farm[125]
Gateway, Cote House[125]
A Thames-side Farm[129]
New Bridge: the Oldest Bridge across the Thames[139]
Northmoor: Church and Dovecote[143]
Stanton Harcourt: Manor House and Church[147]
Early English Screen (Unrestored), Stanton Harcourt[153]
Cumnor Church[163]
Statue of Queen Elizabeth, Cumnor Church[167]
Tomb of Anthony Forster, Cumnor[173]
Eynsham[187]
Iffley Church: North Side[201]
West Door, Iffley Church[205]
The Bridge, Nuneham Courtney[209]
Carfax Conduit, Nuneham Courtney[213]
Abingdon[217]
The Town Hall, Abingdon[223]
St. Helen’s, Abingdon[227]
Old Houses, Steventon Causeway[231]
Sutton Courtney Church[235]
Sutton Courtney[239]
Interior, Sutton Courtney Church[239]
Ancient Timber Porch, Long Wittenham (Unrestored)[245]
Day’s Lock, and Sinodun Hill[249]
Clifton Hampden[257]
Sedilia, Dorchester Abbey[261]
The East Window, Dorchester Abbey[265]
The Jesse Window (on the left), Dorchester Abbey[269]
Dorchester[273]
Dorchester Abbey[273]
Wallingford[277]
Wallingford: Town Hall, and Church of St. Mary-the-More[281]
Goring Church[285]
Hour-Glass Stand, South Stoke[285]
Pangbourne Church[291]
Basildon Church[291]
Whitchurch[297]
Mapledurham Mill[301]
Mapledurham House[305]

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

Near Kemble[19]
At Ewen[21]
At Ashton Keynes[22]
Ashton Keynes Mill[27]
Old Woodwork, Castle Eaton[58]
Norman Porch, Kempsford[60]
Inglesham Church[65]
Ancient Carving, Lechlade Church[73]
Fiends[82], [85]
Faringdon Clump[101]
St. Stephen[107]
Clanfield Church[108]
Faringdon Market House[117]
Wooden Bridge across the Upper Thames[118]
Bampton Church[123]
The Kitchen, Stanton Harcourt[150]
Besselsleigh: Church and Fragment of Manor House[157]
Binsey Church[192]
Christ’s Hospital, Abingdon[221]
St. Nicholas, Abingdon[225]
The “King’s Head and Bell,” Abingdon[233]
Norman Belfry-window, Sutton Courtney[238]
Little Wittenham[245]
Wittenham Clumps[253]