A vision of abstract beauty in nature - sun, reflection and reeds on the Thames, just by Abingdon Weir. Abingdon claims to be the oldest town in England. And the Thames runs through the heart of it. Around a mile upstream of the town centre is this weir, with - as usual - an adjacent lock.

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