The Borthwick Wharf campaigners have been refused leave to appeal in the High Court at a hearing before Lord Justice Moses. The judge concluded that demolition of the riverside building in Deptford does not need planning permission and that the planning authority cannot prevent it. There is a fear that demolition will commence shortly although […]

There is a minor change of route for the Thames Path at Deptford which will keep the way nearer the river. Just after Deptford Creek, the route turns inland at the Ahoy Centre. But instead of continung south along Deptford Green you now walk behind the Ahoy Centre along Borthwick Street. After passing behind Borthwick […]

“The Henley Festival appears to have blocked the Thames towpath, a popular national trail, without lawful authority” declares the Open Spaces Society’s local activist David Parry who visited the site yesterday and today (3 and 4 July). “The festival has consent to close the path during the performances, starting at 5.45 pm on Wednesday 5 […]

Several riverside gardens on or near the Thames Path are open this summer as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Sutton Courtenay Manor, a former grange of Abingdon Abbey and once home of Observer editor David Astor, opens its garden above the water meadows on Sunday afternoon 25 June. A new garden in the grounds […]

Leigh Hatts writes: In writing a paragraph about Oxford’s riverside Grandpont House I tried to concentrate on history rather than now. But maybe I subbed too much by just saying of today “it remains a residence”. Since 1959 it has been the residence for male members of the now well-known Opus Dei. Indeed the house […]

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 […]

Prince Charles is organising a family dinner for The Queen at Kew Palace to mark her 80th birthday. The celebration is on her actual anniversary Friday 21 April and afterwards Her Majesty and Prince Philip are expected to travel upstream to Windsor for the weekend. The small Royal residence has been closed for a decade […]

The Henley Festival has backed down from its plan to ask the Secretary of State for Transport to close part of the Thames Path for seven days in July this year. The Festival has capitulated in the face of significant opposition from the Henley-based national pressure-group, the Open Spaces Society and other objectors. Says Kate […]