The River Cray (a Chalk Stream) flows through Foots Cray Meadows
In The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation, Izaak Walton wrote, 'And you are further to know, that there be certain waters, that breed Trouts remarkable both for their number and smallness. I know a little brook in Kent, that breeds them to a number incredible, and you may take them twenty and forty in an hour, but none greater than about the size of a Gudgeon ...'. It was conjectured by James Rennie (Editor of the 1833 Printing), that Walton was referring to the River Cray, seen here as it flows through Foots Cray Meadows (in the London Borough of Bexley).
The River Cray (a Chalk Stream) flows through Foots Cray Meadows
In The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation, Izaak Walton wrote, 'And you are further to know, that there be certain waters, that breed Trouts remarkable both for their number and smallness. I know a little brook in Kent, that breeds them to a number incredible, and you may take them twenty and forty in an hour, but none greater than about the size of a Gudgeon ...'. It was conjectured by James Rennie (Editor of the 1833 Printing), that Walton was referring to the River Cray, seen here as it flows through Foots Cray Meadows (in the London Borough of Bexley).