Goring-on-Thames
Village in the Goring Gap, facing Streatley across the Thames. In Three Men in a Boat the friends find a drowned woman’s body near here and then spend two days at Streatley.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | setting | Near Goring they find a drowned woman; then two days at Streatley, bad laundry and the plaster-of-Paris trout. |
Three Men in a Boat — Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
Source: Exploration of Three Men in a Boat · Three Men in a Boat · Original · Readwise highlight
Goring on the left bank and Streatley on the right are both or either charming places to stay at for a few days.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Near Goring the friends find the body of a drowned woman and the narrator tells her story. They lunch at the Bull in Streatley, stay two days, wash their clothes disastrously in the river and hear the anglers’ tall tales of the stuffed trout, which turns out to be plaster of Paris.
- Why it matters: The drowned woman is the book’s darkest moment, and the Streatley stay supplies one of its best comic stories; the twin villages host both.