Walking at Burford on Sunday following the River Windrush. It is a tributary of the River Thames; rising near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire it flows south east for 65 km, via Burford and Witney, to meet the Thames at Newbridge in Oxfordshire. The river is immortalised in the name of the Empire Windrush. The Empire part of the name follows the pattern of other merchant ships controlled by the British government during and after the Second World War. She was originally owned and operated by the German shipping line Hamburg Süd in the 1930s under the name Monte Rosa.