thames

     

The Thames (tɛmz (help·info)) is a major river flowing through southern Englan. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading and Windsor.

Trivia about thames

  • Each July 2 London guilds enact a centuries-old ceremony of sending swans up this river
  • Abingdon, Windsor, Gravesend & Southend-On-Sea are on this European river
  • Several structures called London Bridge have spanned this river, the latest completed in 1972
  • The 1,000-ton Silver Sturgeon is the largest riverboat operating on this major river
  • From 1899-1904 Claude Monet created a series of paintings of this English river
  • The Magna Carta was approved near London at Runnymede; a small meadow on this river
  • Blackfriars Bridge
  • This British River rises in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucester
  • At London Bridge this river is about 800 feet wide; at its mouth more than 5 miles
  • The "Architect Earl" of Pembroke laid the first stone in the first Westminster Bridge over this river
  • The section of this river near London Bridge is called the Pool
  • Beneath the Tower Bridge in London:this river
  • This river, which flows through London, rises in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucestershire
  • Around 1620 Cornelis Drebbel demonstrated the 1st workable submarine on this British river
  • You'll pass Chelsea, London & Westminster Bridges as you travel down this river
  • Magna Carta island is in this river, just north of Runnymede
  • Not surprisingly, the city of London, Ontario Canada is located on a river called this
  • The future King George II lost his marbles over Henrietta Howard & gave her Marble Hill House on this river
  • Each earning £3.50 a year in a ceremonial post, royal watermen play a part in any state occasion on this river
  • This English river flows from the Cotswold hills to its mouth on the North Sea
  • River Leach,River Churn,River Cherwell
  • While rowing down this river, you'll pass Oxford University & Windsor Castle
  • Eton &Greenwich
  • The first polar bear on English soil lived at the Tower of London in the 13th century & fished for its meals in this river
  • "A boat of dirty and disreputable appearance" is floating on this river at the beginning of "Our Mutual Friend"
  • Reading & London
  • Once NYC's chief engineer, Marc Brunel later spent 19 years digging the first tunnel under this British river
  • This river measures about 5 miles wide at its mouth on the North Sea
  • While living abroad in Chelsea, Whistler painted a series of scenes set along this river
  • Great Britain's 2 longest rivers are the Severn & this one
  • In 1667 Pepys wrote about the panic caused by the appearance of the Dutch fleet in the Medway & this river
  • In a series representing this river, Monet painted the Waterloo & Charing Cross Bridges
  • Whistler moved to London in 1859 & painted this river often, including "In Ice" in 1860
  • The head of this river is dry for much of the year and flows to an estuary on the North Sea
  • This British river that flows through London is also known as the Isis as it flows through Oxford
  • English towns include Stratford-on-Avon, Stoke-on-Trent & Henley-on- this river
  • It's the longest river entirely within England
  • The War of 1812 Battle of Moraviantown in Canada was also known as the Battle of this Ontario River