Updates

Having crossed Maidenhead Bridge you turn upstream through the Bridge Gardens and suddenly you have to briefly  join the road to avoid one building. On Shrove Tuesday Windsor & Maidenhead Council’s rights of way & highways licensing panel agreed that a riverside path should be created. If negotiation with residents fails members are prepared to […]

Increasing concern all along the Thames about the Environment Agency plans to reduce the number lock and weir-keepers is being highlighted this morning with a demonstration in central London. Environment Agency and GMB union officials are holding joint talks on staffing levels. The GMB is to stress the important work of Richard Hawkins, resident lock […]

Lovell’s Wharf in Greenwich is holding a consultation following the submitting of a new planning application. Lovell’s Wharf is on the Greenwich peninsula just before the Thames Path reaches the Cutty Sark pub. The plan is to extend the residential development north along the riverside to cover the existing Badcock’s Wharf boatyard which will move […]

What is  it like at the Thames source at Kemble in Gloucestershire? It is very rare to find water there but there is now. You usually have to walk downstream for about about a quarter of a mile to cross the Fosse Way before finding water. George Monbiot has made a film for The Guardian […]

Work has begun on the Deptford Creek pedestrian swing bridge. The new crossing is at the entrance of Deptford Creek. Most of the work is on Granophast Wharf where Galliard Homes has built flats incorporating a Waitrose. The bridge should be available to walkers and cyclists at the end of the year. The Thames Path […]

Greenwich Peninsula expert Dr Mary Mills is opposing a change of name for Bugsby’s reach. As reported here the PLA wish to call the  Thames Barrier to the O2  river stretch ‘Watermen’s Reach’. Mary Mills’ view on the the first reach of the Thames Path can be read on the On The Thames site.  

I am remaining at home and only visiting my own local  stretch of the Thames Path which is dry. But we are all interested in what it is like elsewhere. River Thames News is updating daily using pictures sent in by readers.

Today, Monday 10 February, there is no point in walking upstream from Richmond to Windsor. There are flood warnings as far as Shepperton and then it’s severe all the way to Datchet village. Runnymede and Windsor Home Park are now flooded and water has already entered Datchet. Some water appears to have come down the […]

Today is not a day for walking out of Wallingford and along the Thames Path since water is rising following heavy rainfall upstream. However the current diversion caused by works at nearby Benson Lock is likely to remain in place for some time. Walkers going upstream must cross Wallingford Bridge and follow an inland route […]

The Thames Path at Vauxhall’s St George Wharf has now opened. The eastern section adjoining Vauxhall Bridge has been open since 2003 but it has taken a decade to complete the residential development at the upstream end. Now the need to turn inland via Tesco and cross  a main road twice has vanished. You avoid […]