River Thames - Wikipedia. Thames. River. The Thames in London. Country. England. Counties. Gloucestershire,Wiltshire,Oxfordshire,Berkshire,Buckinghamshire,Surrey,Essex,Kent,Greater London. Towns/Cities. Cricklade,Lechlade,Oxford,Abingdon,Wallingford,Reading,Henley- on- Thames,Marlow,Maidenhead,Windsor,Staines- upon- Thames,Walton- on- Thames,Kingston upon Thames,Teddington,London,Dartford, Gravesend, Southend. Source - location. Thames Head, Gloucestershire, UK - elevation.
Station- 2. 9. 8. London Bridge (A3)8.
A river of southern England flowing about 340 km (210 mi) eastward to a wide estuary on the North Sea. Navigable for large ships as far as London. Thames is Britain’s leading producer of quality entertainment TV, and is home to the UK’s biggest and best entertainment programmes. Thames Rent a Car, we are the best car rental services in cyprus, with good cars and rates. We also have luxurious limousines for rent, used for VIP Services. Get a free 24 hour Thames River Cruise ticket with The London Pass. Hop-on-hop-off on City Cruises boats along the Thames and see the best of London.
Rose Hill)Kennington, Oxfordshire. Littlemore (meads), Oxford. Sandford- on- Thames. Radley (meads)Nuneham Courtenay (meads)Abingdon. Culham (meads)Sutton Courtenay.
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Appleford- on- Thames. Clifton Hampden (meads)Long Wittenham. Burcot, Clifton Hampden.
Little Wittenham. Dorchester on Thames (meads)Shillingford Hill, Brightwell- cum- Sotwell (meads)Shillingford, Warborough. Benson (meads)Preston Crowmarsh, Benson (meads)Moulsford.
South Stoke. Wallingford. Crowmarsh Gifford. Newnham Murren. Mongewell. Cholsey. North Stoke. Moulsford. South Stoke. Streatley. Goring- on- Thames. Lower Basildon, Basildon.
Goring. Pangbourne. Whitchurch- on- Thames. Purley on Thames. Mapledurham (meads)Tilehurst. Reading. Caversham.
Sonning. Sonning Eye, Eye and Dunsden. Charvil (meads)Shiplake (meads)Wargrave.
Lower Shiplake, Shiplake. Remenham. Henley- on- Thames. Aston, Remenham. Mill End, Hambleden. Hurley- on- Thames. Medmenham. Bisham.
Marlow. Cookham. Little Marlow. Hedsor Wharf, Hedsor (meads)Bourne End. Maidenhead. Taplow.
Bray. Taplow. Dorney (meads)Water Oakley/Willows Riverside Park, Bray. Dedworth. Boveney, Burnham. Clewer. Eton. Windsor.
Eton. The Home Park, Windsor. Datchet. Old Windsor.
Wraysbury. Runnymede, Egham (meads)Egham Hythe. Staines- upon- Thames. Thorpe. Penton Hook, Chertsey. Laleham. Chertsey. Dumsey Meadow, Shepperton.
Hamm Court Estate, Addlestone. Old Shepperton, Shepperton(various islands), Weybridge.
Old Shepperton, Shepperton. Walton- on- Thames. Lower Halliford, Shepperton.
Sunbury- on- Thames. West and central Molesey.
Hampton. East Molesey. Hampton Court, Hampton. Thames Ditton. Seething Wells (partially), Surbiton. Kingston upon Thames. Hampton Wick. Ham, Kingston upon Thames (meads)Teddington.
Teddington Lock, Weir & Bridges normal tidal limit. Petersham. Twickenham. Richmond. Old Isleworth, Isleworth. Kew. Brentford. Strand- on- the- Green, Chiswick. Mortlake. Dukes Meadows, Chiswick. Barnes. Chiswick.
Castlenau, Barnes. Hammersmith. London Wetland Centre, Barnes. Fulham. Putney. Wandsworth.
Battersea. Sands End, Fulham. Chelsea. Nine Elms, Battersea. Pimlico, Westminster. Vauxhall. Millbank, Westminster(North) Lambeth. Waterloo(Victoria) Embankment/Strand, Westminster. St Clement Danes. Southwark. City of London(The) Borough.
Bermondsey. St Katherine's Wharf, St George in the East. Wapping. Rotherhithe. Shadwell. Limehouse. Millwall, Poplar. Deptford. Millwall/Cubitt Town, Poplar.
Greenwich. Cubitt Town, Poplar. Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich. Blackwall, Poplar. Leamouth, Poplar. New Charlton, Charlton. West Ham. Woolwich(Thames Barrier)East Ham/North Woolwich. Thamesmead, Woolwich.
Barking. Thamesmead, Erith. Dagenham. Erith. Rainham Marshes, Rainham.
Wennington Marshes, Wennington. Erith; Crayford Marshes. Aveley Marshes, Aveley.
Dartford Marshes, Dartford. West Thurrock (Purfleet; West Thurrock Marshes)Stone Marshes, Stone. Greenhithe. Swanscombe. Swanscombe Marshes/Broadness Lighthouse, Swanscombe. Grays (or, more rarely, Grays Thurrock)Northfleet. Tilbury, West Tilbury.
Gravesend. Eastcourt Marshes, Chalk. Shorne Marshes, Shorne. West Tilbury. Higham Marshes, Lower Higham. East Tilbury. Cliffe Marshes/Redham Mead, Cliffe.
Corringham Marshes/Thames Haven, Corringham. Halstow Marshes, High Halstow. Canvey Island, Corringham/Stanford- le- Hope/Leigh- on- Sea. St Marys Marshes, St Mary Hoo.
Allhallows- on- Sea. Leigh- on- Sea. Grain. Southend- on- Sea. End of Thames Estuary . It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn. While it is best known for flowing through London, the river also flows alongside other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Henley- on- Thames and Windsor. In an alternative name, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock in south west London, the lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway.
The section of the river running through Oxford is traditionally called the Isis. With a total length of 2. Thames is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary.
On its way, it passes through London, the country's capital, where the river is deep and navigable to ships; the Thames drains the whole of Greater London. Running through some of the driest parts of mainland Britain and heavily abstracted for drinking water, the Thames's discharge is low considering its length and breadth: the Severn has a discharge almost twice as large on average despite having a smaller drainage basin. In Scotland, the Tay achieves more than double the average discharge from a drainage basin that is 6. The administrative powers of the Thames Conservancy have been taken on with modifications by the Environment Agency and, in respect of the Tideway part of the river, such powers are split between the agency and the Port of London Authority.
In non- administrative use, stemming directly from the river and its name are Thames Valley University, Thames Water, Thames Television productions, Thames & Hudson publishing, Thameslink (north- south railways passing through central London) and South Thames College. Historic entities include the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company.
Two broad canals link the river to other river basins: the Kennet and Avon Canal (Reading to Bath) and the Grand Union Canal (London to the Midlands). The Grand Union effectively bypassed the earlier, narrow and winding Oxford Canal which also remains open as a popular scenic recreational route. Three further cross- basin canals are disused but are in various stages of reconstruction: the Thames and Severn Canal (via Stroud), which operated until 1. England), the Wey and Arun Canal to Littlehampton, which operated until 1. Wilts and Berks Canal. Rowing and sailing clubs are common along the Thames, which is navigable to such vessels.
Kayaking and canoeing also take place. Major annual events include the Henley Royal Regatta and the Boat Race, while the Thames has been used during two Summer Olympic Games: 1. Safe headwaters and reaches are a summer venue for organised swimming, which is prohibited on safety grounds in a stretch centred on Central London. Along its course are 4. Its catchment area covers a large part of South Eastern and a small part of Western England and the river is fed by 3. With its waters varying from freshwater to almost seawater, the Thames supports a variety of wildlife and has a number of adjoining Sites of Special Scientific Interest, with the largest being in the remaining parts of the North Kent Marshes and covering 5,4.
These include a variety of structures connected with use of the river, such as navigations, bridges and watermills, as well as prehistoric burial mounds. A major maritime route is formed for much of its length for shipping and supplies: through the Port of London for international trade, internally along its length and by its connection to the British canal system. The river's position has put it at the centre of many events in British history, leading to it being described by John Burns as . Thames Valley Police is a formal body that takes its name from the river, covering three counties. The administrative powers of the Thames Conservancy have been taken on with modifications by the Environment Agency and, in respect of the Tideway part of the river, such powers are split between the agency and the Port of London Authority.
In non- administrative use, stemming directly from the river and its name are Thames Valley University, Thames Water, Thames Television productions, Thames & Hudson publishing, Thameslink (north- south railways passing through central London) and South Thames College. Historic entities include the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. Etymology. The name probably meant . Jackson has proposed that the name of the Thames is not Indo- European (and of unknown meaning). It is believed that Tamesubugus' name was derived from that of the river.
AD). The river's name has always been pronounced with a simple t /t/; the Middle English spelling was typically Temese and the Brittonic form Tamesis. A similar spelling from 1. Historically, and especially in Victorian times, gazetteers and cartographers insisted that the entire river was correctly named the Isis from its source down to Dorchester on Thames and that only from this point, where the river meets the Thame and becomes the . Ordnance Survey maps still label the Thames as . However, since the early 2. Oxford, and some historians suggest the name Isis is nothing more than a truncation of Tamesis, the Latin name for the Thames. Richard Coates suggests that while the river was as a whole called the Thames, part of it, where it was too wide to ford, was called *(p)lowonida.
This gave the name to a settlement on its banks, which became known as Londinium, from the Indo- European roots *pleu- . Londoners often refer to it simply as . At Seven Springs above the source is a stone with the Latin inscription . The Thames is the longest river entirely in England, but the River Severn, which is partly in Wales, is the longest river in the United Kingdom. As the River Churn, sourced at Seven Springs, is 1.
Thames (from its traditional source at Thames Head to the confluence), the overall length of the Thames measured from Seven Springs, 2. Severn's length 2.