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  2. River Thames - Wikipedia

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    The River Thames (/ t ɛ m z / ⓘ TEMZ), known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles (346 km), it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom , after the River Severn .

  3. Thames Estuary - Wikipedia

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    London Stone, Yantlet Creek. The transition between the Thames Estuary and the North Sea has been located at various notional boundaries, including: [1] The Yantlet Line between the Crow Stone (London Stone) on the northern foreshore at Chalkwell, Westcliff-on-Sea and another London Stone off the Isle of Grain, to the south.

  4. Ancestral Thames - Wikipedia

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    The Ancestral Thames is the geologically ancient precursor to the present day River Thames. The river has its origins in the emergence of Britain from a Cretaceous sea over 60 million years ago. Parts of the river's course were profoundly modified by the Anglian (or Elsterian) glaciation some 450,000 years ago.

  5. The Isis - Wikipedia

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    Map of Oxford c. 1900, with the river labelled as "River Thames or Isis". Rowing on the Isis opposite the Oxford college boathouses. " The Isis " ( / ˈ aɪ s ɪ s / EYE -siss ) is an alternative name for the River Thames , used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the River Thame at Dorchester in Oxfordshire .

  6. Category:River Thames - Wikipedia

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  7. Tributaries of the River Thames - Wikipedia

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    This list comprises the principal instances; longest ex-mill races (), with own articles are included; the main weirstream/river stream of each Thames lock is omitted and the smallest such associated instances [clarification needed]; but the Sheepwash Channel is included for its importance in Oxford.

  8. Embanking of the tidal Thames - Wikipedia

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    Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs, 1792 (Robert Dodd, detail: National Maritime Museum) The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a broad, shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between solid artificial walls, and ...

  9. List of crossings of the River Thames - Wikipedia

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    In the upper reaches of the Thames, the river depth was raised by dams and in the lower reaches it was raised by embankments, so gradually most fords were lost. [1] At least one regular ford remains, at Duxford. Many of the present road bridges over the river are on the sites of earlier fords, ferries and wooden structures.