evenlode

Updated: May 16, 2025

Still, places like the Windrush, the Evenlode, and the other upper tributaries hold rather more trout than they did, as they are better looked after; and the Fairford Colne is still a beautiful trout stream.

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames

There was the making of a good rider in many of them, too; they only wanted ballast, for they knew no more of fear than Nelson did, and would grind over the Vale of the Evenlode and the Marsh Gibbon double timber as gayly and undauntedly as over the accommodating Bullingdon hurdles.

George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence - Guy Livingstone;: or, 'Thorough'

Therein they explored much of the Evenlode, the hay-harvest breeze favoring them. Another day she went with them afoot to the Hinkseys. Certain moot points of poetic identification were hardly settled by that trip, so another followed. They came home by Cumner both days. 'She would do for Africa, confided the explorer to Hood one night.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

Near it is the New Bridge, a solid structure, but the oldest bridge that crosses the Thames, for it was "new" just six hundred years ago. The Thames then receives the Windrush and the Evenlode, and it passes over frequent weirs that have become miniature rapids, yet not too dangerous for an expert oarsman to guide his boat through safely.

Joel Cook - England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel