Oxford, from the Upper River; the New Town--The Courses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge--The Houses of the Regulars and Friars--The University and Parish Churches--The Halls and Colleges of the Seculars, from the Thirteenth Century to the Reformation--Jacobean Oxford--Classic Oxford--Convenient Oxford--The Architectural Revival--The Undergraduate Revival--The River below Folly Bridge, and the Invention of Rowing--The Navigation Shape of the River--Floods--The Barges--Iffley--Littlemore--Kennington--Radley--Sandford--Nuneham 33 CHAPTER III. ABINGDON TO STREATLEY.--_By J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST._ Abingdon--The Abbey--St. Nicholas' Church--The Market Cross--The Ancient Stone Cross--St. Helen's Church--Christ's Hospital--Culham--First View of Wittenham Clump--Clifton Hampden--The "Barley Mow"--A River-side Solitude--Day's Lock--Union of the Thames and the Isis--Dorchester--The Abbey Church--Sinodun Hill--Shillingford Bridge--Bensington--The Church--Crowmarsh Giffard--Wallingford--Mongewell--Newton Murren--Moulsford--The "Beetle and Wedge"--Cleeve Lock--Streatley 62 CHAPTER IV. STREATLEY TO HENLEY.--_By W. SENIOR._ Streatley, the Artists' Mecca--Goring versus Streatley--Goring from the Toll-gate--Streatley Mill--Weirs and Backwaters--Antiquity of Streatley and Goring--Goring Church--Common Wood--Basildon Ferry and Hart's Wood--A Thames Osier Farm--Whitchurch Lock--Pangbourne--Hardwicke House and Mapledurham--Caversham Bridge--Reading and its Abbey--A Divergence to the Kennet, with calls at Marlborough, Hungerford, and Newbury--The Charms of Sonning--"The Loddon slow, with verdant alders crowned"--St. Patrick's Stream--Shiplake Weir--Wargrave and Bolney Court--Park Place--Marsh Lock--Remarks on Thames Angling--The Approach to Henley 85 CHAPTER V. HENLEY TO MAIDENHEAD.--_By the Rev. PROFESSOR BONNEY, F.R.S._ The Best Bit of the River--Henley--The Church--The "Red Lion"--Shenstone's Lines--Henley Regatta--The First University Boat-race--Fawley Court--Remenham--Hambledon Lock--Medmenham Abbey and the Franciscans--Dissolution of the Order--Hurley--Lady Place and its History--A Strange Presentiment--Bisham Abbey and its Ghost--Bisham Church--Great Marlow--The Church and its Curiosities--"Puppy Pie"--Quarry Woods--The Thames Swans and the Vintners' Company--Cookham and Cliefden--Hedsor--Cliefden Woods--The House--Raymead--The Approach to Maidenhead 113 CHAPTER VI. MAIDENHEAD TO WINDSOR.--_By H. SCHÜTZ WILSON._