Fletchers Water

 

I've got grainy video of our children swinging out over what was a fairly broad, and for the most part straight, forest stream, deep enough in parts to make swinging out over it safe-ish, though not deep enough to pose too much of a risk. We spent many happy hours wandering and exploring it's banks and wider environs, often returning to the car wet. Then ten years ago they restored Fletchers Water to it's pre-Victorian course; I'll admit that at the time I wasn't happy about the change, though now naturalizing so beautifully, it's a really lovely stretch of forest stream.  Agreeable as the old Fletchers Water was, you'd not recognize it as the same place.