Windrush

The Windrush is a river in the valleys west of Oxford. Warden Hugh Uffington of the Quiet Ground fishes it on summer evenings, and always gives his catch away before he gets home. The valley folk read this as a sign that he wants nothing of them. His circuit book is the fullest record of lapse in those parts, and he would like his round walked twice every ten years, as once it was.