Literature and The Media
- "The floral tastes of the lock-keeper generally make Sonning Lock very bright and gay."
- — Charles Dickens (1882)
- Is there a spot more lovely than the rest,
- By art improved, by nature truly blest?
- A noble river at its base running,
- It is a little village known as Sonning.
- — James Sadler (1845–1885), Sonning lock keeper
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