Cholsey

During the summer i took a walk along the Thames from Cholsey to Wallingford (in Oxfordshire) and was shocked at the potential dangers.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

During the summer i took a walk along the Thames from Cholsey to Wallingford (in Oxfordshire) and was shocked at the potential dangers.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

So with names of places: thus Cholsey (Berks.) is called Chosley.

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

The riverside, Miss Radford decided, was a suitable spot for rest; she could sit there and, in the intervals of application to literature of the day, watch young men hiring boats and setting out to Shillingford or Cholsey.

Love at Paddington

Abbeys of Osney and Rewley, the Benedictine Nunnery at Littlemore, the great Abbey of Abingdon, the Abbey of Dorchester, Cholsey (but this had been destroyed before the Conquest, and was never revived), the

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Crown, Mary handed it (as she had handed Cholsey) to Sir Robert

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Cholsey, again, with its immemorial traditions of unchanging ecclesiastical custom, receiving its priests in Saxon times from the

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

The very numerous communities of friars, and the hospitals in the towns upon the Thames, cannot be mentioned, the little nunneries of Ankerwick, Burnham, and Little Marlow, the communities, early and late, of Medmenham and Cholsey, the priories of

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Pangbourne also was monastic; and the manor held, as did Cholsey, of

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Long afterwards, when Sir Charles Dilke was travelling down to the Forest of Dean with a party of guests and friends, one of them, looking out as the train swept along the Thames Valley, caught sight of a little white church nestling under a hill and asked, "Is that Cholsey?"

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907