Dressed in a beautiful, hand-made replica Victorian bathing suit, made by a local seamstress to a genuine pattern from the final decade of Queen Victoria's long and glorious reign, Head Gardener Chastity takes to the estate river for a paddle.

Chastity is in fact re-enacting scenes that would have been common on the estate in the 1890s, as the entire household frequently took to the waters to keep cool during the blazing heat of High Summer.

Wading under the old stone bridge in her 19th century bathing suit, Chastity comes upon an inflated tractor inner tube, and plays on it for a while, floating about the pool, legs and lower costume submerged in the water, before climbing off and finally drenching herself completely, including using her cap to scoop water over her head, before posing in the sunlight in her drenched costume.

Swimmers were rather more stylish back then!

Notes: Chastity is wearing black rubber boots with her costume, to protect her legs from sharp rocks in the riverbed. The 18 minute long video was shot by one of our other models who isn't a trained video operator, its mostly quite steady but has the occasional wobble. There is plenty of good, steady, clear footage of Chastity going into and out of the water, paddling and swimming about.