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	River Thames
		The Thames (pronounced "temz") is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea.
		By the 18th century, the Thames was one of the world's busiest waterways, as London became the centre of the vast, mercantile British Empire.
		In return, the Thames has undergone a massive clean-up from the filthy days of the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries, and life has returned to its formerly dead waters.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thames.html (579 words)

	River Thames and boaty things
		However, as the tidal Thames is so irregular, with 25 sharp bends between Teddington and the sea, the fresh and sea waters become thoroughly mixed and at slack water there is little difference between the salinity of the water at the surface and that near the bed.
		The flow in the river increases as you proceed downstream due to the discharges from the various tributaries of the River Thames.
		In total, the River Thames is 344 km (215 miles) long from its source to the sea and is navigable for 306 km (191 miles) from Lechlade, which is the practical limit of navigation (the official limit of navigation is Cricklade some 18 km (11 miles) upstream).
	www.the-river-thames.co.uk /thames.htm (3100 words)

	Thames River Capital
		Thames River Capital is a trading name of Thames River Capital LLP which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Service Authority.
		The Thames River Property Growth and Income Fund Ltd is an open-ended Guernsey Class B Fund and is not a FSA recognised scheme.
		With the exception of Thames River Hedge+ and TR Property Investment Trust plc, the funds are not traded on an exchange or recognised market and in common with some of their investments may not be readily realisable.
	www.thamesriver.co.uk (1445 words)

	Islands in the River Thames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It should be noted that the construction of almost all locks on the Thames involve one or more artificial lock islands separating the lock from the weirs.
		Depending on the circumstances of the lock, these may have been created by building an artificial island in the river, or by digging an artificial canal to contain the lock and turning the land between that and the river into an island.
		Such lock islands are only listed above if they have a specific name of their own, but all Thames locks are listed in Locks on the River Thames.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islands_in_the_River_Thames (217 words)

	River Thames: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The river became to property of the National Trust in 1964 and they have a visitor...
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	www.encyclopedian.com /th/Thames.html (788 words)

	Rivers and Streams Information Portal @ RiverLocale.com (River Locale) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rivers throughout history have been the source and support for civilization, and many major cities today are near a river of some sort.
		A river conducts water by constantly flowing perpendicular to the elevation curve of its bed, thereby converting the wiggle: start to form loops and snake through the plain by eroding the river banks.
		Rivers begin at their source in higher ground, either rising from a spring, forming from glacial meltwater, flowing from a body of water such as a lake, or simply from damp, boggy places where the soil is waterlogged.
	www.riverlocale.com (2616 words)

	Islands
		The island has a long history of cultivation by man. Records exist of a bad flood in 1736 follwoing which it was drained, piled and enclosed by a sea wall.
		Following the protection the island was used for cattle and sheep with additional uses from hunting the abundant wild duck and catching eels which proliferated in the interal dykes.
		The island is now a haven for wildlife and saltmarsh flowers that can flourish without the attention from man for the first time for hundreds of years.
	www.burnham.org.uk /islands.htm (533 words)

	Visit Thames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Thames Ditton Marina is well worth a look and as you continue on your cruise, you will meander past the island of Raven's Ait, before Queen's Reach, the stretch of river passing Kingston.
		The bridge spanning the river from the Middlesex bank to the island is a suspension bridge, while the shorter structure crossing from the Surrey bank has a girder design.
		You may like to explore this part of the Thames; the Thames Path National Trail runs alongside the river all the way from the source of the Thames in the Cotswolds to the Thames Barrier at Woolwich.
	www.visitthames.co.uk /itineraries-A4.html (2100 words)

	River Thames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its usually quoted source is at Thames Head (at grid reference ST980994), about a mile north of the village of Kemble and near the town of Cirencester, in the Cotswolds.
		The serenity of the contemporary Thames is contrasted with the savagery of the Congo River, and with the wilderness of the Thames as it would have appeared to a Roman soldier posted to Britannia two thousand years before.
		Kayaking on the River Thames is also popular, with sea kayakers using the tidal stretch for touring, and whitewater playboaters surfing Hurley Weir and Boulter's Weir.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Thames (2768 words)

	9. Moving Upstream
		Most of the Monacans had moved away from the contested river lands of their fathers after the Indian military campaigns of the seventeenth century, for they were farmers, not warriors.
		The river might not have been very navigable at that time, but its direction was the one land-hungry people pursued as they pushed back the frontier.
		At Suffolk, the Nansemond River which empties into the base of the James was literally set afire in 1779· On the wharves were hundreds of barrels of tar, pitch, turpentine, and rum which "descended to the river in torrents of liquid flame," according to historian Charles Campbell.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/Rivertime/chp9.htm (3453 words)

	The LA River Exhibit \| Sources and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Los Angeles River Project Not to be confused with The River Project mentioned below, the Oxy LA River Project was a series of conferences, art installations, river walks and other public educational forums sponsored by Occidental College between Fall 1999 and Summer 2001.
		Heat Island Group: Los Angeles The Heat Island Group, which studies what are known as "urban heat islands," has documented the Los Angeles region as a typical example of average temperature increases caused by urbanization.
		However, the river with its seasonal flows is not as dramatic as the Thames in London, the Seine in Paris and New York City's Hudson and East rivers.
	www.deliriousla.net /lariver/links.htm (4063 words)

	BBC - Seven Wonders - Isleworth Aits
		Isleworth Ait (island) is one of the many Thames Islands and one of the London Wildlife Trust's most remarkable reserves.
		This 3.5 acre teardrop shaped island is unusual for its canopy of mixed woodland of mainly poplar and willow.
		The Ait is 30 miles from the mouth of the Thames yet is still tidal.
	www.bbc.co.uk /england/sevenwonders/london/isleworth_ait (198 words)

	Long Island Sound Study CCMP: Hypoxia
		Long Island Sound is an estuary, a place where salt water from the ocean mixes with fresh water from rivers and the land.
		Research commissioned by the Long Island Sound Study estimated that about $5 billion is generated annually in the regional economy from boating, commercial and sport fishing, swimming, and beachgoing.
		In summary, Long Island Sound is stressed by people generating wastes that flow into the estuary and by land uses and practices altering the Sound's natural habitats.
	www.longislandsoundstudy.net /ccmp/intro.html (2357 words)

	11. Floating the Upper River
		Even the islands keep adjusting in shape from year to year, expanding on one end as the other yields to the currents, and some dividing or disappearing after high water times.
		Counterpoint is rung on the surface with the instruments of wind, rain, and the dipping and skating insects, punctuated by the percussive leaps of the frogs and the fish.
		However, the pressures of a growing population, especially as the river and canal trade flourished, meant that the luxury of even the cultivated gardens had to go, and the land must be leveled for development.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/Rivertime/chp11.htm (2960 words)

	River Thames and boaty things
		The River Thames is a lowland river throughout most of its course and as a result its landscape is fairly gentle with little striking changes in scenery or gradient.
		The River Thames is now home to some 120 fish species, including two rarities: the Twaite Shad (a type of migrating Herring) and Sea Lamprey, both of which are spawning in the tidal Thames.
		In 1979 the Thames Salmon Re-habilitation Scheme was launched in conjunction with the Thames Salmon Trust with the long term aim of restoring a self sustaining Salmon population in the River Thames.
	www.the-river-thames.co.uk /wildlife.htm (2395 words)

	Visit Thames - Wildlife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The river is now at its cleanest in living memory and kingfishers and otters can now be glimpsed on certain sections of the river.
		The River Thames is a haven for swans, ducks, great crested grebe, coots, moorhens, heron and kingfishers.
		The Agency has also launched the Living Thames Appeal with The Waterways Trust to raise funds to protect the wooded islands in the river which are under threat from slow but inevitable erosion.
	www.visitthames.co.uk /fnature.html (403 words)

	Action plan for Synaptus filiformis
		It used to be regularly found on islands in the River Thames in the Sunbury/Walton-on-Thames area.
		Maintain a viable population in the catchment of the River Parrett.
		Consider notifying as SSSI's areas along the River Parrett holding key populations of the species where this is necessary to secure their long-term protection and appropriate management.
	www.ukbap.org.uk /UKPlans.aspx?ID=591 (553 words)

	TET: About The River: Thames Wildlife: Bird Portraits 1
		Some of the birds found on the River Thames, alongside its banks, and on the land that it runs through.
		A giant amongst gulls with a wing span of over five feet - a devourer of carrion - and a killer of anything which is unfortunate enough to come within range of its powerful bill.
		It nests on cliffs - rocky headlands and islands - the nest consisting of an untidy arrangement of seaweed - grasses and litter on which are laid two or three large eggs.
	www.thames-explorer.org.uk /about_the_river/bird_portraits.html (1117 words)

	The River Thames Guide - About the Thames - Cookham Lock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The lock is unique in that it is the only one on the River Thames that has fully operational middle gates.
		It is at Cookham that the Thames suddenly changes direction as it flows against the solid mss of Chiltern chalk at Cliveden Cliff.
		In the 18 th century the river here was claimed to be dangerous, as large lumps of chalk fell from the cliff, sometimes on to passing barges.
	www.riverthames.co.uk /about_thames/3748.htm (249 words)

	Index to The River Thames at Windsor - by ThamesWeb
		Upstream from Jacob's Island is the cafe on Barry Avenue promenade.
		Baths Island is so named as it was indeed the town's swimming baths noted on maps as early as the 1860s.
		Subsequently the banks were concrete lined, the islands joined and hand rails fitted along the waterline, probably in the 1930s and changing rooms erected adjacent to the railway arches.
	www.thamesweb.co.uk /windsor/rivertrip01/index.html (1219 words)

	Southwark
		To the north is the River Thames, London Bridge station and Southwark Cathedral.
		Southwark is on a previously marshy area south of the River Thames.
		The area was originally a series of islands in the River Thames.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=100144 (1588 words)

	Country cottages and self-catering accommodation by a river with sailing or fishing from country cottages online uk
		This 'cottage' is actually a rather elegant luxury houseboat on the River Thames moored directly across from Kew Gardens in south London.
		It is ideally situated for exploring London combined with the peace and quiet of being on the water.
		River View Lodge is a luxurious pine lodge with 2 bedrooms that can accommodate up to 6 people very comfortably.
	www.countrycottagesonline.com /Cottages_by_the_River.htm (978 words)

	The Nile River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching north for approximately 4,000 miles from East Africa to the Mediterranean.
		Within the southern section between Aswan and Khartoum, land which was called Nubia, the River passes through formations of hard igneous rock, resulting in a series of rapids, or cataracts, which form a natural boundary to the south.
		Too high a flood from their river, and villages would be destroyed; too low a flood, and the land would turn to dust and bring famine.
	www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag05012001/magf4a.htm (1476 words)

	Chertsey Meads Marine Royal River thames pictures, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dominating the River Thames and surrounding countryside, The Castle can be viewed for miles whilst cruising upstream to Windsor.
		To the right, part of the River Thames divides itself and flows around another island, before rushing down a weir to join the main river.
		Here the River Wey and the River Thames have joined together and flow along towards Walton on Thames and further to London.
	www.boatsthames.com /riverpics.html (423 words)

	Weird Words: Eyot
		Anyone living along the River Thames upstream of London as far as about Windsor or Reading will know this word, as it’s commonly used in the names of the little islands that dot the river in those reaches.
		An older form that’s more obviously connected to the way you say it is ait, a spelling retained in the names of some of the Thames islands and which Charles Dickens used in Bleak House: “Fog everywhere.
		Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city”.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-eyo1.htm (203 words)

	Plaza on the River Club and Residence : London : United Kingdom - Hotels Guide by BootsnAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Plaza on the River Club and Residence is perfectly located on the south bank of the River Thames, within sight of many of London's most famous landmarks.
		Plaza on the River offers 66 luxurious, fully air-conditioned studios and one, two and three bedroom suites that are well equipped.
		Guests residing at Plaza on the River have access to the onsite Fitness Suite, where they can release the tension of a busy day with cardiovascular and weight residence machines.
	www.bootsnall.com /hotels/h/45512/Plaza-on-the-River-Club-and-Residence (274 words)

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