Photographer Martin Sheen who ran the Thames Path at the end of June has just released some inspiring pictures taken along the way. See the Martin Sheen website.

Last Sunday’s Countryfile began with ten minutes on Wittenham Clumps. Julia Bradbury gives an update on the beech trees planted in about 1740 and reveals that new trees will be hornbeam. There is film of the fields being turned in wildflower meadows and a reminder that Paul Nash returned many times over 35 years to […]

Ten Church Delights in today’s Sunday Telegraph has Inglesham’s wall paintings at number 4. Inglesham is where navigation ends and the Thames takes on an even more lonely but unspoilt feel like the little church.

Young’s recently reopened Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market is ShortList magazine’s 2013 pub of the year. The Thames Path touches the edge of Borough Market just after Southwark Cathedral which has its handy Refectory for refreshments. More established as a stopping point on the Thames Path is The Ship (just after Wandsworth Bridge) which comes […]

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 […]