Caitlin Davies

Cover of Caitlin Davies's Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames

Taking the Waters, written by Caitlin Davies with photography by Ruth Corney

Illustration from Caitlin Davies's Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames

Caitlin Davies is a novelist, non-fiction writer, journalist and teacher who authored the history of swimming in the River Thames, titled Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames.

History of Swimming the River Thames

In Victorian times, races were held from the Southend pier head and in the 1920s two champion Channel swimmers chose the Thames estuary as their training ground. Today Southend is the home to the Chalkwell Recaps, the fastest growing open water swimming club in the country.

Publications

• Family Likeness
• Taking the Waters: A Swim Around Hampstead Heath
• Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames
  
  
  
  

External links

• Reading, Not Racing. A Library Of Open Water Swimming Books
• Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames
• Downstream Facebook page
• Swimming Downstream, A Book & Talk By Caitlin Davies
• Thinking While Swimming In The Open Water
• Taking the Waters
• Taking The Waters By Caitlin Davies And Ruth Corney