Near Burford the River Windrush is "a narrow water, reedy and often iris-fringed. It was the setting for that idyllic romance of Compton Mackenzie, Guy and Pauline. If you want to understand the lure of this bird-haunted water, you cannot do better than re-read that story in which we follow the moods of the river through the year" Quote from
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