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THE THAMES




     VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES BY MORTIMER MENPES
     EACH 20S. NET WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

     THE DURBAR
     JAPAN. WORLD'S CHILDREN
     WORLD PICTURES. VENICE
     WAR IMPRESSIONS
     INDIA. BRITTANY


     _Published by_
     A. & C. BLACK. SOHO SQUARE. LONDON. W.


     _AGENTS_

     AMERICA    THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
                  64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

     CANADA     THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.
                  27 RICHMOND STREET, TORONTO

     INDIA      MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD.
                  MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY
                  309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA




  [Illustration: PUNTING]




     THE THAMES

     BY MORTIMER MENPES, R.I.
     TEXT BY G. E. MITTON
     PUBLISHED BY A.&C. BLACK
     SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.




     _Published July 1906_




  [Illustration]




CONTENTS

  CHAPTER I                                        PAGE
  The Beauty of the River                             1

  CHAPTER II
  The Oxford Meadows                                 25

  CHAPTER III
  The Old Town of Abingdon                           37

  CHAPTER IV
  Dorchester and Sinodun Hill                        47

  CHAPTER V
  Castle and Stronghold                              53

  CHAPTER VI
  Twin Villages                                      57

  CHAPTER VII
  A Mitred Abbot                                     67

  CHAPTER VIII
  Sonning and its Roses                              72

  CHAPTER IX
  Wargrave and Neighbourhood                         80

  CHAPTER X
  Henley                                             97

  CHAPTER XI
  The Romance of Bisham and Hurley                  105

  CHAPTER XII
  Boulter's Lock and Maidenhead                     128

  CHAPTER XIII
  Windsor and Eton                                  140

  CHAPTER XIV
  Magna Charta                                      155

  CHAPTER XV
  Penton Hook                                       161

  CHAPTER XVI
  Weybridge and Chertsey                            167

  CHAPTER XVII
  The Londoner's Zone                               177

  CHAPTER XVIII
  The River at London                               205

  CHAPTER XIX
  Our National Possession                           231

  Index                                             243




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  1. Punting                                           _Frontispiece_
                                                                 PAGE
  2. Thames Ditton                                                  v
  3. Sutton Courtney, Culham Bridge                                 1
  4. Pangbourne                                _Facing_             4
  5. Dorchester Abbey                          "                    8
  6. Day's Lock                                "                   12
  7. Near the Bridge, Sutton Courtney          "                   14
  8. Streatley Inn                             "                   18
  9. Sandford Lock                                                 25
  10. Iffley                                   _Facing_            28
  11. Radley College Boat-house                "                   34
  12. Almshouses of Abingdon                                       37
  13. Abingdon                                 _Facing_            38
  14. The Mill at Abingdon                     "                   40
  15. Sutton Courtney Backwater                "                   42
  16. Clifden Hampden from the Bridge          "                   44
  17. Clifden Hampden                          "                   46
  18. Hurley                                                       47
  19. Cottages, Dorchester                     _Facing_            48
  20. White Hart Hotel, Dorchester             "                   50
  21. Dorchester Backwater                     "                   52
  22. Danesfield                                                   53
  23. Wallingford                              _Facing_            54
  24. Streatley Mill                           "                   56
  25. Goring Bridge                                                57
  26. Streatley                                _Facing_            58
  27. Goring Church                            "                   60
  28. Goring                                   "                   62
  29. Pangbourne, from the Swan