Eight feet jump ten feet into nine feet*

the moment of impact for two feet

After seeing Stour Trusty II leave Dedham Lock yesterday we continued following the river downstream to the road bridge. Here were four boys having great fun jumping from the bridge into the Stour, swimming to the bank, running back up to the bridge, and doing it all over again.


They said they'd checked the depth and that there were no nasty obstructions by wading in before jumping. Sensible, eh?


They'd been doing it all day, with a break for lunch. And they were pleased to be photographed. But in which county were they doing it? The river forms the boundary between Essex (on the right) and Suffolk. There's a good article on the history of the Stour from the IWA here.

* I'm guessing that the depth was nine feet. One of the boys said he could just touch the bottom after a jump.

edited to add IWA link