sturry-on-the-stour

Updated: June 13, 2025

He and another commercial gentleman took a boat one Sunday afternoon at Sturry-on-the-Stour, when the wind was in the west, and sailed it very happily eastward for an hour. They had never sailed a boat before and it seemed simple and wonderful. When they turned they found the river too narrow for tacking and the tide running out like a sluice.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The History of Mr. Polly