The Trout Inn
Seventeenth-century stone riverside inn beside a roaring weir and a medieval Thames bridge.
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This guide to the Trout Inn at Godstow, on the edge of Oxford, is about the river as a playground: generations of students and visitors rowing upstream from the city for a meal by the weir. You'll meet the poet Robert Southey on an early-morning row, a party dining on fried eels, and a Victorian couple who knew the inn's regulars. Best heard on the terrace, within earshot of the weir.
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