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River Thames: current conditions updated for Thursday 2 November 2023. Changes to following reaches - Sandford, Boulters, Bray and Chertsey reaches. All reaches now displaying red warnings. The Thames is popular for a wide variety of riverside housing, including high-rise flats in central London and chalets on the banks and islands upstream. Some people live in houseboats, typically around Brentford and Tagg's Island.

River Thames: current conditions updated for Saturday 29 April 2023. Changes to the following reaches: St Johns, Buscot, Grafton, Radcot and Marlow.It dammed the river in Hertfordshire, resulting in the formation of large ice lakes, which eventually burst their banks and caused the river to divert onto its present course through the area of present-day London. Course [ edit ] The marker stone at the official source of the River Thames named Thames Head near Kemble The Thames passes by some of the sights of London, including the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye. River Thames, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom, 2019 Whilst the use of the river to drive water-mills has largely died out, there has been a recent trend to use the head of water provided by the river's existing weirs to drive small hydro-electric power plants, using Archimedes screw turbines. Operational schemes include: Literary non-fiction works include Samuel Pepys' diary, in which he recorded many events relating to the Thames including the Fire of London. He was disturbed while writing it in June 1667 by the sound of gunfire as Dutch warships broke through the Royal Navy on the Thames. River Thames: current conditions updated for Wednesday 6 September 2023. No stream warning changes.

Needham, P. (1985). "Neolithic And Bronze Age Settlement on the Buried Floodplains of Runnymede". Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 4 (2): 125–137. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1985.tb00237.x. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! In 1751 the Thames Navigation Commission was formed to manage the whole non-tidal river above Staines. The City of London long claimed responsibility for the tidal river. A long running dispute between the City and the Crown over ownership of the river was not settled until 1857, when the Thames Conservancy was formed to manage the river from Staines downstream. In 1866 the functions of the Thames Navigation Commission were transferred to the Thames Conservancy, which thus had responsibility for the whole river. The River Thames contains over 80 islands ranging from the large estuarial marshlands of the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island to small tree-covered islets like Rose Isle in Oxfordshire and Headpile Eyot in Berkshire. They are found all the way from Fiddler's Island in Oxfordshire to the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Some of the largest inland islands, for example Formosa Island near Cookham and Andersey Island at Abingdon, were created naturally when the course of the river divided into separate streams.BBC News, 24 July 2014 "Deaths in the River Thames reached 15 last year". BBC News online. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 23 January 2019. . Find which popular events take place along the river each year including numerous regattas, festivals and other water-nased fun. The leisure navigation and sporting activities on the river have given rise to a number of businesses including boatbuilding, marinas, ships chandlers and salvage services. to following reaches: Grafton, Radcot, Rushey, Shifford, Northmoor, Pinkhill, Eynsham, Kings, Godstow, Hurley, Temple, Bray, Boveney, Romney, Old Windsor, Bell Weir and Chertsey.