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The area covered by Thames Valley Police. The Thames Valley is an area in South East England that extends along the River Thames west of London towards Oxford.The area is a major tourist destination and economic hub on the M4 corridor, with a high concentration of technology companies.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales.The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.
Thames Valley (European Parliament constituency) (1979–1999) Thames Valley Police, a Police Force covering Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire; Thames Valley University, former name of University of West London; ITV Thames Valley, a former ITV region; M4 corridor, part of which is synonymous with the Thames Valley
After the river took its present-day course, many of the banks of the Thames Estuary and the Thames Valley in London were partly covered in marshland, as was the adjoining Lower Lea Valley. Streams and rivers like the River Lea , Tyburn Brook and Bollo Brook drained into the river, while some islands, e.g. Thorney Island , formed over the ages.
The Thames Valley Housing Association (also Thames Valley housing) was a medium-sized housing association based in Twickenham, South West London, which owned or managed around 15,000 homes at the time of the merge. These included traditional rented housing, shared ownership, key worker and student accommodations.
Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 km) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,564. [1] Bampton is variously referred to as both a town and a village.
On 11 August 2008 several protesters from Oxford and Thames Valley Climate Action glued their hands to the doors of BHP Billiton's headquarters in Victoria, London protest against the use of coal as a fuel. The protest was part of the Climate camp held at Kingsnorth power station in England. [2]
Thames Valley Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley region, covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in South East England. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is the largest non-metropolitan police force in England and Wales , covering 2,218 square miles (5,740 km 2 ) and a population of 2.42 ...