Swift Ditch
Rivers of OxfordshireThames drainage basinUse British English from November 2017
The Swift Ditch is a 2 km (1.2 mi) long artificial channel that formed a short-cut for river traffic to and from Oxford, across a meander of the River Thames in England. It was formerly the primary navigation channel. With the main river, it creates Andersey Island on the left bank of the Thames opposite Abingdon-on-Thames. Within a poem published in 1632, the Water Poet John Taylor wrote:At Abingdon the shoals are worse and worse That Swift Ditch seems to be the better course
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South Oxfordshire Culham
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