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25 of the UK’s most relaxing riverside stays
Constable and Turner found painterly inspiration in them; Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote odes to them; entire books have been written about them, from Roger Deakin’s wild-swimming memoir Waterlog to literary classics such as Tarka the Otter, The Wind in …