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Did you know that Charles Kingsley had the idea for his book The Water Babies while staying in and fishing at Itchen Abbas near Winchester? The priest-professor-novelist was a regular visitor to the Plough Inn there, now The Trout. It is a caddis fly – the creature beloved of fly fishermen - that explains to the drowned Tom that he has become a water baby.
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