The Ridgeway meets the more recent ( 1997 ) Thames Path National Trail at the Goring Gap, where both trails use opposite banks of the River Thames between Goring-on-Thames and Mongewell ; the Thames Path following the western bank and the Ridgeway the eastern.

* Thames Path

It is located on the Thames Path National Trail.

Around the year 2000 AD, several footbridges were added along the Thames, either as part of the Thames Path or in commemoration of the Millennium.

Upstream are smaller pedestrian ferries, for example Hampton Ferry and Shepperton to Weybridge Ferry the last being the only non-permanent crossing that remains on the Thames Path.

* Thames Path. com – Includes news features

* Thames Path Online Guide

* Thames Path National Trail

The Thames Path National Trail which runs to the source of the River Thames at Kemble begins at nearby Crayford Ness.

Narrow Street forms a part of the north bank of the Thames Path, the walk is between tall former warehouses and modern flats.

The Thamesmead Riverside Walk runs alongside the Thames through Thamesmead West, Thamesmead Central and Thamesmead North and is part of both the Thames Path Southeast Extension and National Cycle Route 1.

There are also some Long-distance footpaths in the Borough: among them the Thames Path and the London Outer Orbital Path.

* Thames Path in England

Commercial Road runs underneath the c2c platforms, while to the south lies Narrow Street and the Thames Path along the north bank of the River Thames.

M. K. Lawson in his Dictionary of National Biography article on Harthacnut states that it is unclear whether Harthacnut was to have England as well as Denmark, but it was probably a reflection of a formal arrangement that mints south of the Thames produced silver pennies in his name, while those to the north were almost all Harold's.

Domesday Book was eventually placed in the Public Record Office, London ; it can be now seen in a glass case in the museum at The National Archives in Kew, which is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London.

When Thames Water was privatised in 1990, its river management functions were transferred to the National Rivers Authority, in 1996 subsumed into the Environment Agency.

Other public bus routes that have used the crossing, and since ceased, were the Eastern National 402 ( Southend-Dartford / Kings Cross ), and the Dartford-Basildon ' Thames Weald ' Express.

After the 1986 abolition of the GLC it was operated successively by Thames Water Authority and then the National Rivers Authority until April 1996 when it passed to the Environment Agency.

This comprehensive scheme was for the redevelopment of much of Whitehall, Horse Guards Parade, the embankment of the River Thames on both sides of the river in the areas to the north and south of the Palace of Westminster, this would eventual be partially realised as the Victoria Embankment and Albert Embankment, three new bridges across the Thames, a vast Hotel where Charing Cross railway station was later built, the enlargement of the National Gallery ( Barry's son Edward would later extend the Gallery ) and new buildings around Trafalgar Square and along the new embankments and the recently created Victoria Street.

Denys Lasdun's building for the National Theatre – an " urban landscape " of interlocking terraces responding to the site at King's Reach on the River Thames to exploit views of St Paul's Cathedral and Somerset House.

The Severn and Thames cycle route ( part of Route 4 ) of the Sustrans National Cycle Network passes through the town.

It is an interchange between National Rail trains between central London and Dartford ( north Kent ), and the Docklands Light Railway ( DLR ) between Lewisham to the south and the Docklands area and the City of London north of the River Thames.

On the west side, in Westminster, are Thames House ( the headquarters of MI5 ), behind which is Horseferry House ( the National Probation Service headquarters ), and Clelland House and Abell House ( the headquarters of HM Prison Service ), and the Millbank Tower and Tate Britain.

Richmond station ( London ) is a National Rail and London Underground station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London which is managed by South West Trains.

Near Bourne End, across the River Thames, is Cock Marsh, an area of common land and floodplain owned by the National Trust.

The Thames Path National Trail follows the River Thames through Bourne End ; upstream on the Buckinghamshire side, crossing the river at the footbridge, and downstream through Berkshire.

* Alan Thornhill, sculptor whose nine large works form the permanent Putney Sculpture Trail along the Thames

The Thames Path National Trail joins ( from Cricklade ) before running into the verge as the right of way, with the traffic having no speed restrictions the pedestrian has to endure unkept vegetation and traffic until the Thames Path has a dangerous road crossing to Inglesham Church and along the river to Lechlade.

Across the river Thames from Chertsey Bridge on the Middlesex side of the river is the Thames Path National Trail, and Chertsey Lock.

Runnymede is also along the Thames Path National Trail.

* Thames Path National Trail

In England the route follows the Pennine Way, the Gritstone Trail, the Staffordshire Way, the Heart of England Way, the Oxfordshire Way, the Oxford Canal, the Thames Path, the Wey South Path and the North Downs Way to Dover.

The Thames Path is a National Trail, opened in 1996, following the length of the River Thames from its source near Kemble in Gloucestershire to the Thames Barrier at Charlton.

This is considered an extension of the Thames Path ( as recognised by the Ramblers Association ) and was opened in 2001, but is not part of the National Trail.

* The Thames Path National Trail — unofficial guide

Since 1950, almost every year at Easter, long distance canoeists have been competing in what is now known as the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race, which follows the course of the Kennet & Avon Canal, joins the River Thames at Reading and runs right up to a grand finish at Westminster Bridge.

Roughly triangular in shape, its northern boundary is the Thames, as it runs first north-east, and then east, before turning north again to pass Westminster.

However, two London Overground lines serve Hackney: the North London Line crosses from west to east while the East London Line runs from Highbury & Islington and passes through Dalston Junction and on south through Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch towards destinations south of the River Thames, including Crystal Palace, Croydon, and New Cross.

The Thames Clipper commuter ferry service runs from Woolwich to Canary Wharf and the City.

The area gives its name to Limehouse Reach, a section of the Thames which runs from Shadwell, through Ratcliff and then Limehouse and on to Millwall.

Further to the southwest, Narrow Street, Limehouse's historic spine, which runs along the back of the Thames wharves, boasts one of the few surviving early Georgian terraces in London.

-London Buses route 486 runs between Bexleyheath and North Greenwich ( the O2 and Thames Cable Car Crossing ).

At the east end of Painshill Park, the lower flood plain abruptly narrows to form a narrow trench approximately 60 m wide, in which the river runs northwards for towards Hersham, where the river enters the flood plain of the River Thames.

The Lower Thames River runs through Chatham – Kent to Lake St. Clair in the west, while the Sydenham River flows through Wallaceburg and Dresden.

After below Isis Lock the Oxford Canal ends abruptly at Hythe Bridge Street near to the current Hythe Bridge over the Castle Mill Stream, a backwater of the River Thames that runs parallel to the Oxford Canal for its southernmost part.

The A4 runs through the town and crosses the Thames over Maidenhead Bridge.

The River Thames runs half a mile to the east of the town centre, and York Stream, which runs through the town centre, connects to the Thames via a system of disused waterways.

Chelsea is an affluent area of Central London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road and Chelsea Harbour.

Before the construction in the 19th century of the busy Embankment, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the River Thames.

The infant River Evenlode rises near Batsford, runs around the edge of Moreton and meanders its way towards Oxford, where it flows into the Thames just east of Eynsham.