Famous Fishing

The Bourne Rivulet rises at St Mary Bourne and joins the Test near Whitchurch. It is best known because of much loved book - Harry Plunket Greene’s Where the Bright Waters Meet - which describes in lyrical terms the author’s love affair with this magical stream and its surprisingly large brown trout. Visitors often stop at Plunket Greene’s grave next to the river in Hurstbourne Priors to pay their respects before fishing, and perhaps tuck an Iron-blue dun (Plunket Greene’s favourite fly) into the lichen on the cross that marks his grave, already covered in flies and fly boxes left by previous pilgrims.