Updates

A Travelodge has opened at Egham just in time for the Magna Carta 800 celebrations on nearby Runnymede in June. This will be handy for walkers as it is in the town centre, next to the new Waitrose, and near the station. The best approach to the Thames Path is to walk down Hummer Road and across […]

Windsor & Maidenhead Council has confirmed that it will not be reopening the towpath upstream of Maidenhead Bridge. A short stretch has been unavailable to walkers. On Wednesday the planning committee approved the creation of a short footpath along Ray Mead Road instead of the riverside. The Open Spaces Society is angry that the Thames Path National […]

The swing bridge at Deptford Creek has opened. The first walkers crossed on Monday. There is now a new Thames Path route between Greenwich’s Cutty Sark and Deptford. After passing Cutty Sark (left) follow the riverside to Horseferry Place. But do not turn left down Horseferry Place. Instead keep ahead across sheltered Wood Wharf to […]

Organisers of the World Pooh Sticks Championships at Day’s Lock in Oxfordshire are looking for a new venue. The tradition was started in 1984 by the lock keeper but for the past 31 years the Rotary Club has organised the event. Hundreds of competitors take it in turns to drop sticks off the bridge and […]

The Open Spaces Society is calling on Windsor and Maidenhead Council to reject the planning application for a footpath along Ray Mead Road instead of reopening the towpath. The controversial site is just upstream of Maidenhead Bridge where walkers have to leave the historic line of towpath and go inland round a building. Kate Ashbrook, general secretary […]

The Big Allotment Challenge is back on BBC2 and again filmed in the walled garden of Mapledurham House. Mapledurham is across the river from the Thames Path upstream of Purley.

This year 2015 sees several anniversaries but for the Thames it is a special year in which to remember ‘Alice in Wonderland’. It is just over 150 years ago that Charles Dodgson took ten year old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat trip upstream from Oxford’s Folly Bridge to a picnic at Godstow. The […]

This year of 2015 will see many Magna Carta anniversary events along the River Thames. The site of the sealing of the charter is of course Runnymede. But the barons had been plotting and negotiating with King John at The Temple in the City of London where there are anniversary events. Another focus for the […]

The plan to improve the Thames Path just upstream of Maidenhead Bridge has been downgraded after much discussion and false starts. The garden wall at Bridge View in Ray Mead Road will be dismantled and rebuilt a little back from the road to give enough space for a footpath. The idea of diverting the path back on to […]

The statues of Dr Alfred Salter, his wife Ada and their daughter Joyce can now be seen on Bermondsey Wall East. Three years ago Dr Salter was stolen leaving his daughter and the family cat by the river wall. The original artist Diane Gorvin has recreated the statue and  added his wife to the group. Ada […]