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River Thames: current conditions updated for Sunday 14 May 2023. Changes to following reaches - Iffley, Clifton, Benson, Cleeve, Goring, Whitchurch, Mapledurham, Blake's, Sonning, Shiplake, Marsh, Hambleden, Marlow, Cookham, Romney, Old Windsor, Bell Weir and Teddington. River Thames: current conditions updated for Monday 17 April 2023. Changes to following reaches - Boulters, Bray and Teddington.

River Thames current river conditions updated for Monday 13 March 2023. Changes to Romney and Old Windsor reaches. Clayton, Phil (2012). Headwaters: Walking to British River Sources (Firsted.). London: Frances Lincoln Limited. p.38. ISBN 9780711233638. During a series of cold winters the Thames froze over above London Bridge: in the first Frost Fair in 1607, a tent city was set up on the river, along with a number of amusements, including ice bowling.

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 Friday 20 October 2023. Changes to following reaches - Buscot, Radcot, Rushey, Shifford, Eynsham, Kings, Godstow, Osney, Clifton, Days, Benson, Cleeve, Goring, Whitchurch, Mapledurham, Caversham, Sunbury, Molesey and Teddington. The University Boat Race (between Oxford and Cambridge) takes place in late March or early April, on the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake in the west of London. River Thames: Current Conditions updated for 11 March 2023. Changes to the following reaches - Blakes, Shiplake, Hurley, Temple, Romney, Old Windsor and Shepperton In the post-war era, although the Port of London remains one of the UK's three main ports, most trade has moved downstream from central London. In the late 1950s, the discharge of methane gas in the depths of the river caused the water to bubble, and the toxins wore away at boats' propellers. [61]

At this time the river-system headwaters lay in the English West Midlands and may, at times, have received drainage from the Berwyn Mountains in North Wales. River Thames: current conditions updated for Friday 25 March 2023. Change to following reaches – St John’s, Sandford, Day's, Cleeve, Goring, Hambleden, Hurley, Temple, Cookham, Romney, Old Windsor, Bell Weir, Chertsey, Sunbury and Molesey. River Thames: current conditions updated for Monday 27 November 2023. Changes to the following reaches - Grafton, Iffley, Benson, Cleeve, Goring, Mapledurham, Caversham, Romney and Old Windsor. The Henley Boat Races currently for the Lightweight (men's and women's) crews of Oxford and Cambridge universities The first commission concerned with the management of the river was the Oxford-Burcot Commission, formed in 1605 to make the river navigable between Burcot and Oxford.Humanrace: Windsor". Speedo Open Water Swim Series. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012 . Retrieved 1 July 2012. 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.

River Thames: current conditions updated for Friday 3 February 2023. Changes to following reaches - Iffley, Sonning, Marlow and Sunbury River Thames: current river conditions updated for Tuesday 14 November 2023. No stream warning changes. Thames lifeboat service launched". BBC News. 2 January 2002. Archived from the original on 26 May 2004 . Retrieved 17 May 2010.

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following reaches changed to Caution stream decreasing - Grafton, Pinkhill, King’s, Godstow and Sonning, As early as the 1300s, the Thames was used to dispose of waste matter produced in the city of London, thus turning the river into an open sewer. In 1357, Edward III described the state of the river in a proclamation: "... dung and other filth had accumulated in divers places upon the banks of the river with ... fumes and other abominable stenches arising therefrom." [53] River Thames: current conditions updated for Tuesday 17 October 2023. Changes to following reaches - Radcot, Rushey, Shifford, Northmoor, Pinkhill, Eynsham, Kings, Godstow, Osney and Marlow.

History". Reconnecting London with the River Thames. Tideway. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Laville, Sandra (13 May 2022). "Sewage dumps into English rivers widespread, criminal inquiry suspects". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 April 2023. Two rowing events on the River Thames are traditionally part of the wider English sporting calendar:Environment Agency - 1947 floods Thames". Archived from the original on 6 December 2007 . Retrieved 19 April 2011.