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River Thames

The River Thames is the longest river in England, and is best known for flowing through central London.

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What is the area of Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames?

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Kingston, Jamaica's area is 185.33 square miles.

What is the name of the bridge over the Thames?

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There are 214 bridges which cross the river Thames so it would be difficult to name them all here. However, some of the best known bridges in London are Tower, London, Southwark, Lambeth, Vauxhall, Albert, Chelsea, Putney, Richmond, Kingston

How did Victorian people use the river thames?

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Okay, sorry for the rude things here but... People Poo and Weed in buckets back then and they emptied them into the street so... They looked for a solution so they decided to dump the buckets in the river.

Why does the river thames have locks?

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There are no locks on the Thames.

There are lots of locks on the Thames so that the river can be navigated. The river is tidal as far as Teddington Lock in west London.

Where is the thames tidal?

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The tidal section is from the sea to about 90 kms upstream to Teddington

What is the widest point of the Thames?

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Westminster bridge, just in front of the Houses of Parliament, is 826.8 ft (252m) wide, which is a fairly good indication of the width of the river at the point most visitors would see it. A few miles upstream, at Hammersmith, the bridge is only 700 ft (210m), whilst at Dartford, the last bridge on the Thames before the open sea, the bridge is 2,664 ft (812m) long.

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This question is the same as - how long is a piece of string. Given the Thames is 215 miles long there would be thousands of different widths.
There are many parts of the River Thames:

The width of the river Thames also increases the further downstream you go.

Lechlade 18 metres wide

Oxford 76 metres wide

Teddington 100 metres wide

London Bridge 265 metres wide

Woolwich 448 metres wide

Gravesend 732 metres wide

Nore Light, 10 km wide

Estuary (between Shoeburyness and Sheerness) 8 km wide

Whitstable and Foulness Point, the estuary is 29 km across.

Hope my answer was some help!! :)

How popular is the river thames?

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The Thames is famous for a number of reasons. By the 1800s, it was one of the world's busiest waterways. It has had a number of different "London Bridges" through the centuries. At one stage (1290 to 1700s) the bridge contained an intricate complex of houses, shops and a chapel, had 19 small arches and a drawbridge with a gatehouse at each end. It was so heavily populated that it was made a ward of the City with its own alderman. Cleopatra's Needle, an ancient Egyptian obelisk of red granite about 20m high and inscribed with hieroglyphics, is located on the bank of the Thames. When the many piers of the old bridge slowed the flow of water, the Thames used to completely freeze over. This gave rise to the "Frost Fairs". When the Thames froze over completely, enterprising London merchants began to set up stalls and markets along the middle of the river. The final Frost Fair was held in 1814. Unfortunately, the centuries-old problem of pollution of the Thames has also made it famous. During the "Great Stink" of 1858, the smell from the river was so bad that the House of Commons at Westminster could not sit. The Thames also features in literature, specifically in classics such as "Alice in Wonderland", "The Wind in the Willows" and "Oliver Twist".

What is the elevation for the River Thames in meters?

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The Thames elevation is 110 meters, 361ft.

Where is the Thames barrier?

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The Thames Barrier is about one-mile downstream of Canary Wharf in the east-end of London, between Charlton in the south and Canning Town in the north.

How cold was it when the Thames froze?

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It hasn't frozen for many years so there are no accurate records.

The only reliable records I can access show that the temperature in 1709 dropped to -15° C, (-5°F), and stayed that low for 11 days.

Non-tidal parts of the Thames froze in 1963. That is the last time any part of the Thames froze.

Where does the thames start?

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The recognised source of the River Thames is at a place called Thames Head, one mile north of the village of Kemble in the Cotswolds.

What are the river thames' physical features?

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the physical features are the meanders that bend throughout the rivers and how long the river is the depths and its source which starts near Kemble in glosstishere and ends between Essex and Kent also other physical features are the bank side of the rivers.

How many meters deep is the river THAMES?

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As it flows through central London the Thames is surprisingly shallow. Underneath Westminster bridge the depth is usually no greater than 6 feet i.e. about the depth of a tall person. However the river does rise considerably with the Spring tides, so its depth varies. Obviously the Thames estuary is far deeper, I think the maximum depth being around 30 feet. I wouldn't recommend trying to find out yourself unless you have scuba diving equipment and are a trained drift diver LOL

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Who named the River Thames the River Thames?

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The word comes from middle English, derived from the Celtic name 'Tamesas' recorded in Latin as Tamesis.

What is the latitude and longitude of the River Thames?

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Latitude: N 37° 30' 1.3198", Longitude: W 88° 3' 56.3202"

Who made the Thames?

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The river Thames rises in Gloucestershire and flows through Oxford, Reading, Windsor and London before discharging into the North Sea. It is 212 miles long.

Is Kingston-upon-thames in surrey?

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Greater London - it was in Surrey until 1965.

Does magpie island exist?

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Magpie Island is an island in the River Thames - Wikipedia.

Where does the river Medway start and end?

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Source - Turners Hill. Mouth - Thames Estuary