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Walking along the Thames Path is one of the easiest and best ways to explore both the countryside and the capital city of Britain. Garrick’s Temple in Hampton A Trail for everyone The Trail is well marked and it’s difficult to get lost as it rarely leaves the riverbank. The Thames Places to stay Path is a flat, easy Trail accessible for walkers of many There are campsites, hostels, traditional ages and abilities. Riverside farmhouses, village inns and some of the pubs, country houses, royal finest hotels in the country alongside the palaces, castles and gardens line Trail. The National Trails Office produces the banks to welcome walkers a comprehensive guide, The Thames Path and entice a stop. Many visitors are Companion, (ISBN: 978-0-9561074-2-8) drawn to the Trail on day trips or enjoy it listing accommodation, facilities and over a series of weekends, often inventing circuits services. Contact the Thames Path between bridges and locks to suit. But others, enchanted National Trail Office for information by the river, manage to find a couple of weeks to indulge or visit the web site. themselves in its entirety from source to sea. Following the Greatest River in Britain J2093 Thames Path Leaflet_J897_Thames_Path_Leaflet 01/04/2014 10:55 Page 1 Page 10:55 01/04/2014 Leaflet_J897_Thames_Path_Leaflet Path Thames J2093 J2093 ThamesPathLeaflet_J897_Thames_Path_Leaflet01/04/201410:56Page2 Famous faces Henley-on-Thames Kenneth Grahame, inspired 184 miles following by the wildlife he observed from the Thames Path, wrote the children’s classic Wind in The Greatest River the Willows. “It was so very Beautiful that the mole could only hold up both fore-paws and in Britain gasp, ‘O my!, O my!, O my!’” . Old Father Thames Others, including poet Shelley, artists such as Sir Stanley Spencer and William Morris, and the numerous Kings and Queens of England have all played their part in recognising the river to be “The most loved OXFORD Snakeshead fritillaries WITNEY of all the Ocean’s sons” Clifton Hampden Bridge (Sir John Denham 1615). Goring lock Punting A4095 A4074 A34 M40 CIRENCESTER LECHLADE ON THAMES A415 ABINGDON A419 KEMBLE A429 CRICKLADE A361 FARINGDON DIDCOT HIGH WYCOMBE WALLINGFORD A419 M40 Floodline on +44 (0) 845 988 1188 When to go A34 MARLOW SWINDON (1,1,1,1) or visit the flood warning A4130 TH E RIVER THAMES In summer, when the wildlife pages for the River Thames at and the countryside colours are www.environment-agency.gov.uk. A404 HENLEY at their best, most of the Trail ON THAMES MAIDENHEAD DOCKLANDS can be walked in lightweight comfortable GORING ON THAMES HAMMERSMITH The Thames Path in London remains M4 shoes. In winter, or when it’s wet, wear SOUTH GREATER LONDON WESTMINSTER wellingtons or walking boots. After heavy walkable and popular any time of the A404(M) BANK THAMES year, used regularly by local people BARRIER rain some parts, particularly west of WINDSOR and tourists alike as a convenient and PANGBOURNE M25 Oxford, may be flooded and therefore M4 GREENWICH unwalkable. attractive way to get to work, to visit some of the top tourist attractions and READING RICHMOND For up-to-date information on flooding GREATER LONDON as a place to retreat from the bustle of HAMPTON contact the Environment Agency's city life. STAINES COURT N Battersea Park M3 M25 MANY SERVICES THROUGHOUT LONDON Goring-on-Thames 0 5 10 miles 0 5 10 15 kilometres Key The Thames Path Roads Mute swans River Trains National Rail: Tel 08457 484950 National Rail Enquiries from overseas: Tel +44 (0)20 7278 5240 (international rates apply) Website: www.nationalrail.co.uk Scheduled boat services Visit the boating pages at www.visitthames.co.uk to find boat trips and services.