]Connstable painted a lovely picture called something like "View of the river near Salisbury" or "View of the meadows near Salisbury" which shows these kinds of meadows in their winter flood.

Here are constable's paintings of the names mentioned:

http://www.uk-pages.net/graphics/constable/watermea.jpg

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/charlotte/0334/033432.JPG

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/47/L47/eL47.jpg

And here is "I wanna go to Brighton!"

http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/auth/constable/brighton-beach.jpg