Saint Helen's Wharf is a noted beauty spot on the River Thames, just upstream of the medieval bridge at Abingdon-on-Thames. The wharf was for centuries an important transport and shipping link up the Thames and between canals from Oxford and the Midlands. Fine merchant houses rub shoulders with alms houses and the Saxon-era Saint Helens Church. Here we see pleasure and house boats moored alongside the Long Alley Alms Houses, viewed on a fine mid-summer day from the north bank of the river. And a line of Canada Geese chooses this moment to swim

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