More than 66 swans have been fished out of the River Thames near Windsor in the past week as the pandemic swoops through the flock. Twenty-two birds were discovered on Sunday alone.
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Riverdene, in Cookham, not only appears in some of the Royal Academician s works but was also home to racing daredevil Sir Algernon Guinness.
The buyers of Riverdene, in Cookham, Berkshire, will wake up every morning to the views that moved Royal Academician Sir Stanley Spencer. This whitewashed house with a Parisian feel, which is for sale through Hamptons at a guide price of £4.5 million, stands on the banks of the Thames, next to the 12th-century village church.
Spencer was so enamoured of Cookham, where he had been born in 1891, that it called it ‘a village in heaven’ and spent the years before and after the First World War painting landscapes and biblical scenes set – somewhat incongruously but beautifully –against the backdrop of the local churchyard and the surrounding countryside.