Since the subject of the Source of the Thames has emerged I remembered a weekend we had away in Lechslade a few years ago. We went down on the Friday and stayed at the New Inn Hotel in the high street:
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It was quite unusual in that a number of the rooms were in the old stable block running down from the back of the main building to the car park:
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Our room was 2/3 of the way down with the original stable door:
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It was very comfortable indeed and I especially appreciated the walk down through the car park to the grass bank beside the Thames. Once there looking to the right, upstream, you see Lechlade bridge about 100 metres away. The bridge marks the end of the navigable river for cruisers, beyond it is juat man propelled craft.
We picked the hotel, well I picked the hotel, for one simple reason which won't surprise the FCF faithful reading this:
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Just along the High Street from the hotel was Old Bell Antiques, which is a shop visited a few times by Henry Cole in his various trading programmes, where we had a very entertaining hour chatting with the owners while looking round the extensive shops and yard.
We had a very pleasant time and may well repeat the weekend soon
