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The Thames River / t ɛ m z / [5] is located in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The Thames flows southwest for 273 kilometres (170 mi) [3] through southwestern Ontario, from the Town of Tavistock through the cities of Woodstock, London and Chatham to Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair. Its drainage basin is 5,825 square kilometres (2,249 sq mi). [3]
The Quinnipiac River (/ ˈ k w ɪ n ə ˌ p i. æ k / KWIH-nə-pee-ak) is a 45.5-mile (73.2 km) [4] long river in the New England region of the United States, located entirely in the state of Connecticut.
Marlow (/ ˈ m ɑːr l oʊ / MAR-loh), historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow, is a town and civil parish within the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England.It is located on the River Thames, 4 miles (6 km) south-southwest of High Wycombe, 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of Maidenhead and 33 miles (53 km) west of central London.
1285 — Landmark, the London Stone, installed to mark western limit of the City of London's jurisdiction over the River Thames. It originally stood upstream from Staines town centre and a replica marks the spot while the original undergoes restoration
Outline of the London region. London is the largest urban area and the capital city of the United Kingdom.It lies in the southeastern part of the island of Great Britain.The London region covers 1,579 square kilometres (610 sq mi), and had a population of 8.982 million in 2019 and a population density of 5,596 people per square km in 2021.
The Thames River (/ θ eɪ m z / thaymz) [1] is a short river and tidal estuary in the state of Connecticut. It flows south for 15 miles (24 km) [ 2 ] through eastern Connecticut from the junction of the Yantic River and Shetucket River at Norwich, Connecticut , to New London and Groton, Connecticut , which flank its mouth at Long Island Sound .
Through to the late 16th century, London citizens turned to the tidal Thames for much of their non-drinking water. For drinking, due to the brackish and perceptibly poor taste of the Thames, they tended to rely on wells and tributaries rising in around a dozen natural springs on the north side of the Thames, restricting the city's expansion south of the river.
Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs, 1792 (Robert Dodd, detail: National Maritime Museum) The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a broad, shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between solid artificial walls, and ...