The Thames Path by Leigh Hatts

Antony Worrall Thompson is leaving historic Rivermead Cottages in Shiplake near Henley. The celebrity chef has put the early 19th-century long building in Mill Lane up for sale and is moving to a larger property nearby. The row of cottages, built for workers at Shiplake Mill, was purchased by his grandfather and gradually turned into [...]

Young’s is to close its Wandworth brewery near the confluence of the River Thames and River Wandle next autumn. There has been a brewery on the site alongside the River Wandle since 1581. Once coal and malt arrived by barge from London’s docks and was unloaded in the Wandle mouth. Until recently the Thames Path [...]