Reviewing "A Walk along the Thames Path" in County Life, the author Ronald Blythe wrote:

"This is a beautiful little rewalk, accompanied by Edmund Spenser, Three Men in a Boat, Ratty, William Morris and Turner, as well as today's riverside crowd....

"Although the old views - because they are so exquisitely drawn - pop up at every footstep, they are respectfully kept in place by Davies's determination to put down what he sees and feels. He remains fresh and excited from source to Greenwich....