The Nag’s Head on Abingdon Bridge reopened at the weekend. Good reports on the Abingdon Blog.

Today The Ramblers marked the opening of the riverside route at Shiplake. This moment has come after years of negotiation so the event was a very special occasion. Now, having left Shiplake Station and turned into Mill Road, you can go left opposite the junction with New Road. The way is down a lane by […]

Burgers wonderful teashop in Marlow has won the Best cup of Tea Award. This is part of Marlow FM’s Hidden Gems Awards “voted by people of Marlow”. Burgers is now open every day. Once if you arrived in Marlow on a Sunday wanting tea you had to go to the church hall next door.

The approach to Benson Lock from Wallingford has often proved muddy. Recent surfacing will both make walking easier and result end the mud being trodden across the lock.

The latest Good Beer Guide edited by Roger Protz includes several essential pubs along the Thames. As well as beer and food details there are useful pieces of history dropped into reports. The White Cross at Richmond takes its name from the convent on the riverside site. The Watermans Arms at Eton was briefly a […]

It was a delightful moment when we followed the towpath directly on to the lawn of The Rose Revived at Newbridge. It was around 5.30pm but we were able to have cup of tea at once sitting on a sofa just inside the door. Our room for the night was on the first floor almost […]

The residence usually highlighted at delightful Strand-on-the-Green is Zoffany House where the artist John Zoffany lived. Less well-known but now on the market is Zachary House which also has  a white frontage. It has a recording studio and lots of pop music associations. The present owner is former New Musical Express editor Alan Smith. The […]

A highlight at the Pre-Raphaelites exhibition are the embroideries made in about 1891 by Jane and May Morris for William Morris’s bed at Kelmscott Manor near Lechlade. The exhibition is downstream at Tate Britain until 13 January; admission £14.00 (conc £12.20)

Three years ago Alex Polizzi featured the African Queen floating hotel in her Channel 5 programme Hotel Inspector. This Thursday 6 September (9pm) Alex goes aboard again to see if owners Andy and Bonny Cowley have built on her makeover suggestions. The Dutch barge’s home mooring is Mapledurham. Last weekend it was seen sailing downstream […]

The Pavilion which can be seen from the Kingston-Hampton Court towpath is for sale. The three story property was built about 1700 as one of four although only this one survives. The architect is now thought not to be Christopher Wren but his pupil William Talman who did some decoration in nearby Hampton Court Palace. […]