Bedford's Mill Meadow is situated on the south bank of the River Ouse and derives its name from Duck Mill situated at the meadow's west end. These scenes feature the meadow on the left bank looking back towards the town. William Hale White (who used the pen name 'Mark Rutherford') describes boyhood summer days by the river in the 1830s: '...on summer Wednesdays and Saturdays we wandered along its banks for miles, alternately fishing and bathing. I remember whole afternoons in June, July and August, passed half-naked or altogether naked in solitary meadows and the water.'