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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  ...net_and_Avon_Canal map]); thus the Kennet and Avon is a canal provides the link in an inland navigation route from the [[Bristol Channel]] in the west to t ...from Newbury to [[Reading]] the Kennet is itself canalised to the [[River Thames]].
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• Billericay
  ...of them may have spent the night in Billericay before crossing the [[River Thames]] at [[Tilbury]]. Which may account for the large number of inns in the tow ...ng the First World War, one of the giant German Zeppelin airships was shot down during an aerial battle over Billericay. During its fiery demise, it narro
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• Maldon
  ...r estuary]] in [[Essex]]. A pretty town and ancient, its high street runs down the hill to the town's key on the Blackwater, where Maldon's second heart l ...rrow river slicing through the black mud. By the key are found the famous Thames sailing barges, their red sails once a familiar sight from here to London.
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• Sapperton Valley
  [[File:Towpath, Thames and Severn canal, near Frampton Mansell - geograph.org.uk - 1133865.jpg|rig ...g ribbon of canal bank, water meadows and woodland by the disused former [[Thames and Severn Canal]]. The [[River Frome, Stroud|River Frome]] runs in paralle
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• Bradford-on-Avon
  ...e canal provides a link through to the Avon at Bath in the west, and the [[Thames]] at [[Reading]] in the east.
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• Floating Harbour
  ...book |last=Pearson |first=Michael |authorlink=|title=Kennet & Avon Middle Thames:Pearson's Canal Companion |year=2003 |publisher=Central Waterways Supplies| ...f the harbour. The Feeder Canal between Temple Meads and Netham provided a link to the tidal river so that boats could continue upstream to Bath. However,
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• Brunanburh
  [[File:Thames Scramasax.jpg|right|thumb|600px|Early English seax]] ...tymologically the same as ''Brunanburh''. No archaeology has been found to link it with the period though.
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• Northfleet
  '''Northfleet''' is a town in [[Kent]], on the coast of the [[Thames Estuary]], in the lathe of [[Aylesford]] and the [[Toltingtrough Hundred]] This has been the site of a settlement on the shore of the [[River Thames]] adjacent to [[Gravesend]] since Roman times. It is recorded as ''Fleote''
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• Basildon Park
  |website={{NT link}} .... It is found 2 miles south of Streatley in [[Berkshire]] and [[Goring-on-Thames]] in [[Oxfordshire]]. The house and its magnificent garden are owned by the
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• Fulham
  ...] and [[Kensington]] to the north, [[Chelsea]] to the east and the [[River Thames]] to the west, south and south-east; across which lie [[Barnes]], [[Putney] In 879 Danish invaders, sailed up the [[Thames]] and wintered at Fulham and Hammersmith. Raphael Holinshed (died 1580) wro
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• Canning Town
  ...c1872, showing Victoria Docks, now Royal Victoria Dock, Bow Creek and the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company.]] ...e new road layouts for the upgraded A13 road and a feeder to the Limehouse Link tunnel, avoiding the [[Blackwall Tunnel]]. The abutments of the old iron br
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• Colnbrook
  ...: Volume 3.''] William Page (editor), 1925, pp. 246-249.</ref><ref>''Sweet Thames Run Softly'' - Robert Gibbings</ref><ref>[http://www.hornpipe.com/mystclas/ ...are plans to re-use the southern part of it for the Heathrow Airtrack rail link from Staines to Heathrow Airport.
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• Crossings of the River Thames
  ...ix public ferries, one cable car link, and at least one ford. The [[River Thames]] has so many bridges thrown across it because of its position in the busie ...ure can be seen, and mediæval stone structures such as [[Newbridge, River Thames|Newbridge]] and [[Abingdon Bridge]] are still in use.
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• River Parrett
  ...nder an 1845 Act of Parliament the Port of Bridgwater extends from [[Brean Down]] to [[Hinkley Point]] in [[Bridgwater Bay]], and includes parts of the Riv ...chapter=The late Saxon Landscape |isbn=978-0-86183-129-6 |ref=harv |editor-link=Michael Aston }}
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• Ruthwell
  ...al and the Rood'', 15.</ref> The usual account is that the cross was taken down in the church or churchyard soon after the 1642 order and broken up. It was *{{Citation |last=Browne |first=G. F. |author-link=|year=1908 |title=Alcuin of York |volume=|edition=|publisher=Society for Pr
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• Oxford Canal
  ...thamptonshire]] and into [[Warwickshire]]. Its course connects the [[River Thames]] at Oxford, to the [[Grand Union Canal]] at the villages of [[Braunston, N ...rporated into the development as Tooley's Historic Boatyard. Further south down the valley the canal approaches the small hamlet, Twyford Wharf, a basin is
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• Downhill Demesne
  |website={{NT link|Downhill Demesne and Hezlett House}} ...title=Irish Art and Architecture: From Prehistory to the Present|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=1993|pages=139|isbn=0-500-27707-9|accessdate=14 April 2009}
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• Belton House
  |website={{NT link}} ...nate to survive after the War, when so many country houses were being torn down, but short of cash the house deteriorated until in 1961 the 6th Baron effec
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• Hardwick Hall
  ...dow than wall.' Nikolaus Pevsner, ''A History of Building Types''. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976, p. 324, note 80.</ref> The Hall's chimneys are built into ...Exhibition.<ref>Nikolaus Pevsner, ''A History of Building Types''. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976, p. 248.</ref>
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• Avebury Stone Circle
  ...ductive areas of the island: Orkney, eastern Scotland, Anglesey, the upper Thames, Wessex, Essex, Yorkshire and the river valleys of the Wash.<ref>[[#Par05|P ...he early 14th century, villagers began to demolish the monument by pulling down the large standing stones and burying them in ready-dug pits at the side, p
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