River Windrush

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The Windrush at Bourton-on the-Water

A pedestrian bridge across the River Windrush at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire

The River Windrush is a river in the English Cotswolds, forming part of the River Thames catchment.

The river starts in Gloucestershire (51°58′54.51″N, 1°51′59.64″W), northeast of Taddington, which is north of the cotswold villages of Guiting Power, Temple Guiting, Ford and Cutsdean. It flows for circa 40 miles through Bourton-on-the-Water, and the village of Windrush, into Oxfordshire and through Burford, Witney, Ducklington and Standlake.

It meets the Thames at Newbridge (51°42′36.03″N, 1°25′7.19″W). The river is host to fish, including trout, grayling, perch, chub, roach and dace.

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