Source to sea
In 1858, John Hanning Speke came upon Lake Victoria (as he named it) and realised he had found the source of the Nile. He had struggled through east Africa for two years, going both temporarily blind and deaf.
By comparison, my arrival at the source of the Ouse in deepest West Sussex was a rather more low-key affair. A bus driver dropped me off near a road junction south-east of Horsham called Ashfold Crossways. In a small private wood nearby, the Ouse rises up. I duly peered through the trees towards the spot indicated as the source on
