In its upper course the river drains a broadly triangular area defined by the chalk escarpment of the Chiltern Hills and the Berkshire Downs to the east and south, the Cotswolds to the west, and the Northamptonshire uplands to the north.

The River Thames flows through several cities and towns including Cricklade, Lechlade, Oxford, Abingdon, Wallingford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines-upon-Thames, Walton-on-Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Teddington, London, Dartford, Gravesend, and Southend.

9 Major Sites Along London’s River Thames

• Hampton Court Palace. We begin way upstream at the great Medieval palace of Hampton Court 3.5 hours from Westminster by boat (substantially faster by train from Waterloo).
• 2 & 3. Tate Britain + Tate Modern.
• The Palace of Westminster.
• The London Eye.
• 6 & 7.
• Tower of London.
• Greenwich Park.

The River Roding is a river in England that rises near Dunmow, flows through Essex and forms Barking Creek as it reaches the River Thames in London. The river leaves Dunmow and passes through a group of villages in Essex known collectively as the Rodings, as they all end with the suffix ‘Roding’.

The River Thames, for centuries it’s been a much of a London landmark as any of the city’s man-made structures. A major trade route and lifeblood for early Londoners, here are a few facts and figures about that river that you may not have known.

The Chambal River is the cleanest river of India, considered pollution free and host amazing species of mugger and gharial, freshwater turtles,gangetic river dolphins and Indian skimmers.

It flows through the town of Dawki in East Jaintia Hills district near the India-Bangladesh border, 85 km from Shillong. Suggest edits to improve what we show. Umngot river of Meghalaya enjoys the status of the cleanest river in the country.

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)’s latest available data, the water quality of Ganga across a significant portion of its 2,500 kilometres length is still unfit for bathing and drinking as it does not meet the permissible parameters for biochemical oxygen demand and total coliform.

Padubidri Beach

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