Book of the Thames: From Its Rise to Its Fall

Excerpt from The Book of the From Its Rise to Its Fall
Before we ask the reader to accompany us on our tour, we require him to pause awhile, and consider two essential points - its source, and the name under which it is rightly to be recognised and known.
Both are in dispute. The Churn, which rises at Seven Springs, about three miles from Cheltenham, and joins the Thames at Cricklade, is sometimes described as the source of the great river. Generally speaking, the source Of a river is the spring farthest from its mouth and the head of the Churn is farther from the Nore than Thames Head by perhaps fifteen miles. But old writers, old maps, and Old documents, unite in representing Thames Head, near Cirencester, as the head of4 the book OF the thames.
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