Month: July 2013

Prince Charles was at Kemble Station this morning to open a new garden which can be enjoyed by all those who complete the Thames Path. Kemble is very convenient for Thames Head but sometimes one can have a long wait at this attractive station so there will often be time to appreciate improvements.

Price’s is offering 50% discount on their candles online to celebrate the birth of the Prince. This recalls that Price’s became a household name selling candles to mark the wedding of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert in 1840. Prices’s has long ceased to make candles on Battersea riverside but in part of the old factory […]

A lovely stream of pictures have been taken by Eric Wong who in the last hot week has been walking along the Thames Path from Oxford to Pinkhill. The photographs include an at first confusing but interesting map of Eysham.

      The first few yards of the riverside path west of Vauxhall’s St George development has been relaid and landscaped. Riverside Gardens, as this ‘pocket park’ is now called, is the result of cooperation between Lambeth and Wandsworth Councils and the developers St George. There has been a grand opening ceremony with a […]

The National Churches Trust, still better known by its old name the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, has asked personalities to name their favourite church. Timmy Mallett has chosen Cookham’s Holy Trinity Church which has the Thames Path running through its churchyard. “This is my church – I ring the bells here. It’s the spiritual home […]

The idea of a new swing bridge for walkers and cyclists spanning the entrance to Deptford Creek has just been given planning permission. Although it appeared in the original plans for New Capital Quay its construction now seems to rely on additional storeys being added to the already very high blocks of flats. This new […]

A future stretch of the Thames Path is emerging at Deptford Creek where New Capital Quay is being redeveloped. Huge blocks of flats have replaced open ground which was once Phoenix Gas Works. The present route between Greenwich and Deptford is along the riverside for a short distance and then inland at Wood Wharf to […]

Oxfordshire County Council’s Countryside Access Team has received an Access Innovation Award for improvements to the highest bridleway on the Thame Path. A welcome flight of steps alongside a ramp were installed last year on the path from Whitchurch to Gatehampton. The problem was a worn path on a very steep slope just before Hartslock […]