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This article lists the tributaries of the River Thames from the sea to the source, in England. There are also secondary lists of backwaters of the river itself and the waterways branching off. Note: the River Medway shares the saline lower Thames Estuary .
[3] [b] The origin is shared by many other river names in Britain, such as the River Tamar at the border of Devon and Cornwall, several rivers named Tame in the Midlands and North Yorkshire, the Tavy on Dartmoor, the Team of the North East, the Teifi and Teme of Wales, the Teviot in the Scottish Borders and a Thames tributary, the Thame.
Tributaries of the River Thames, England. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. L. River Lea (4 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Tributaries of ...
The River Churn is the first tributary river of the River Thames.It rises in the Cotswolds at Seven Springs, south of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England and flows south across the Cotswold dip slope, passing through North Cerney and Cirencester, and joining the Thames in the parish of Cricklade in Wiltshire.
The Wogebourne (/ w oʊ ɡ ˈ b ɔːr n /) is an 8 km (5.0 mi) tributary of the River Thames in the southeast London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, that flows generally in a northeasterly direction, from its source in Oxleas Wood in Shooter's Hill, to Thamesmead where it joins the Thames.
It had been conjectured that the Romano-British name for the Thames ("Tamesis") is a conflation (joining together) of its two main tributary names, the River Thame and the Isis. The conflation theory might explain why the Thames retained a trailing 's' – but the River Thame did not. [ 10 ]
The River Cherwell (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr w ɛ l / ⓘ CHAR-wel or / ˈ tʃ ɜːr w ɛ l / CHUR-wel) is a tributary of the River Thames in central England. It rises near Hellidon, Northamptonshire and flows southwards for 40 miles (64 km) to meet the Thames at Oxford in Oxfordshire.
The River Rom, also known as the River Beam below its confluence with the Ravensbourne [n 1], is a tributary of the River Thames in England that flows through the east London suburbs around Romford before joining the Thames at Dagenham. Part of the river forms a section of the boundary between the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham and ...