trewsbury

Updated: May 12, 2025

The confluence of many small streams draining the Cotswolds makes the Thames, but its traditional source, or "The Thames Head," is in Trewsbury Mead, about three miles from Cirencester, and at an elevation of three hundred and seventy-six feet above the sea-level.

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