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  River Thames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its source (at Ordnance Survey grid reference ST 980 994) is about a mile north of the village of Kemble, near Cirencester in the Cotswolds.
The River Thames is navigable from the estuary as far as Lechlade in Gloucestershire.
Between the sea and Teddington Lock, the river forms part of the Port of London and navigation is administered by the Port of London Authority.
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 GLOUCESTERSHIRE - Online Information article about GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Among the uplands of the Cotteswolds there are no towns, and villages are few, but in the east of the county, in the upper Thames basin, there are, besides Cirencester, Fairford on the Coln and Lechlade, close to the head of the See also:
Far up in the Lech valley, remote from railway communication, is Northleach, once a great posting station on the Oxford and Cheltenham road.
The Perpendicular church at Lechlade is unusually perfect; and that at Fairford was built (c.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GLOUCESTERSHIRE.html   (4957 words)

  
 GLOUCESTERSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The highest bed of the Lower Oolite is the Cornbrash, about 40 ft. of rubble, productive in corn, forming a narrow belt from Siddington to Fairford.
Near the latter town and Lechlade is a small tract of blue Oxford Clay of the Middle Oolite.
The county has no higher Secondary or Tertiary rocks; but the Quaternary series is represented by much northern drift gravel in the vale and Over Severn, by accumulations of Oolitic detritus, including post-Glacial extinct mammalian remains on the flanks of the Cotteswolds, and by submerged forests extending from Sharpness to Gloucester.
www.1911ency.org /G/GL/GLOUCESTERSHIRE.htm   (3670 words)

  
 Learn more about William Morris in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of his best known works, News from Nowhere, is a utopian novel describing a socialist society.
Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor near Lechlade, Gloucestershire, as a summer retreat, but it soon became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris to have a long-lasting affair.
To escape the discomfort, Morris often travelled to Iceland, where he researched Icelandic legends that later became the basis of poems and novels.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wi/william_morris.html   (658 words)

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