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Thames and its historic palaces dot the river route
A nostalgic survey of the upper Thames tracing origin myths and river life from Cricklade to Windsor. It highlights bridges, canals like the Stroudwater, royal sites at Windsor and Richmond, Oxford, Westminster, and the regattas at Henley, with notes on kings, nobles, and famed landmarks along the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
Gravesend
John
Thames
Alfred
Herold
Norman William
Windsor
Hampton
Richmond
Henley
Oxford
Tower of London
Cliveden
Wm. Waldorf Astor
Houses of Parliament
Westminster Abbey
Lilian Hayden Hleston
Aemble
Cricklad
Inglegham
Bames
Bristol
Framileds
Severn
Walbridrs
Stroud
Stroudwat
Jagiesham
Lechiads
Fapperton
Cricklade
Canute
Mercia
Crickiate
Lechiade
Lech
Taames
Edward the Confessor
Westminster
Wildnor
William the Norman
Essex-Lorit
Victoria
Shakespeare
Elizabeth
White Hart
St George's Chapel
Westmeinster
Windsors Stoke Pores
Gray
Queen Elizabeth
Dean Swift
Pope
Edmund Kean
Henry
Healey