Lechlade

The comedian will set off from Lechlade in Gloucestershire on 5 September and swim 140 miles over eight days to reach Big Ben in London.

David Walliams to swim the Thames for Sport Relief 2011

In the next town downstream he would summon the Lechlade people to collect their boat.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

At Lechlade, the town at the highest navigable point on the Thames, the boatyard had allocated one of its newly refurbished punts to Mr Williams, in consideration of his having paid extra for the best.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

The Five Alls pub near Lechlade in Gloucestershire and the Catherine Wheel in Goring-on-Thames, Berkshire, aim to have their canine visitors howling with delight at their Dog's Dinner menu, which provides a choice between dishes such as the delectable sounding Liver & Garden Veg chunks in gravy or Chicken & Beef chunks in jelly.

Pub chain puts free dogs' dinners on the menu 2010

The summer evening that suggested to him the poem written in the churchyard of Lechlade occurred during his voyage up the Thames in

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

His beautiful stanzas in the churchyard of Lechlade were written on that occasion.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

At Lechlade, the town at the highest navigable point on the Thames, the boatyard had allocated one of its newly refurbished punts to Mr Williams, in consideration of his having paid extra for the best.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

In the next town downstream he would summon the Lechlade people to collect their boat.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

'Lechlade is as far up as you can go except in a rowing boat, and that's about 300 feet above sea level.'

Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

At Lechlade and at Buscot, where Summer days are long,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Various