William Morris and the River Thames

William Morris loved the Thames, and both his homes – Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire and Kelmscott House, named after it, in Hammersmith – are by the river. He liked to think that the water that ran under his windows at Hammersmith had passed the meadows and grey gables of Kelmscott. This cartoon (left) by Rossetti is of Morris fishing in the Thames at Kelmscott, though the backwater that runs by the Tudor manor house (right) was dug out by the landlord Turner family to transport farm produce. 

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