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A Brief History of Canvey Island". Canvey Island Town Council. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 27 August 2020. During a series of cold winters the Thames froze over above London Bridge: in the first Frost Fair in 1607, a tent city was set up on the river, along with a number of amusements, including ice bowling. Thiess International Riverprize – International RiverFoundation". riverfoundation.org.au. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017 . Retrieved 1 August 2017. Fluvial flooding from the Thames is unlikely to be a problem for this policy unit because fluvial flood levels would not overtop the defences.

At this time the river-system headwaters lay in the English West Midlands and may, at times, have received drainage from the Berwyn Mountains in North Wales. Stevenson, Chris (19 August 2013). "Seal count discovers over 700 in Thames Estuary". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 23 August 2013. Frost Fairs, London, UK". BBC. 11 March 2003. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 21 March 2007. History of the major rivers of southern Britain during the Tertiary". Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group. 2006. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007 . Retrieved 28 November 2007. Use the Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) map to view all the policy units. Local areas at risk and types of flooding

Several central London road bridges were built in the 19th century, most conspicuously Tower Bridge, the only Bascule bridge on the river, designed to allow ocean-going ships to pass beneath it. The most recent road bridges are the bypasses at Isis Bridge and Marlow By-pass Bridge and the motorway bridges, most notably the two on the M25 route: Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and M25 Runnymede Bridge.

Competition for the use of the river created the centuries-old conflict between those who wanted to dam the river to build millraces and fish traps and those who wanted to travel and carry goods on it. Economic prosperity and the foundation of wealthy monasteries by the Anglo-Saxons attracted unwelcome visitors and by around AD 870 the Vikings were sweeping up the Thames on the tide and creating havoc as in their destruction of Chertsey Abbey. A storm tide happens when there is a storm in the North Sea. High winds and changes in atmospheric pressure can cause extremely high water levels, making tides much higher than usual. The half of the estuary that lies east of its narrow Tideway-named part, by the Operational Land Imager work with the council, developers and local infrastructure providers to adapt defences and achieve multiple benefits through proposed development Our investigations into the flood storage option indicate that flood forecasting would need to be more reliable to make this option work. This is something we will look into further before deciding on an option.

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BBC News, 24 July 2014 "Deaths in the River Thames reached 15 last year". BBC News online. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 23 January 2019. .

This part of the river is managed by the Port of London Authority. The flood threat here comes from high tides and strong winds from the North Sea, and the Thames Barrier was built in the 1980s to protect London from this risk. James, Alan G. (2020). The Brittonic Language in the Old North, A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence, Volume 2. Scottish Place-Name Society. Raising upstream defences will allow us to let higher tides upriver, reducing the number of times the barrier needs to close. This will mean that it can still be maintained effectively. Options for adapting to sea level rise The river gives its name to three informal areas: the Thames Valley, a region of England around the river between Oxford and West London; the Thames Gateway; and the greatly overlapping Thames Estuary around the tidal Thames to the east of London and including the waterway itself. Thames Valley Police is a formal body that takes its name from the river, covering three counties. In non-administrative use, the river's name is used in those of Thames Valley University, Thames Water, Thames Television, publishing company Thames & Hudson, Thameslink (north–south rail service passing through central London) and South Thames College. An example of its use in the names of historic entities is the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. Where higher land reaches the coast, there are some larger settlements, such as Clacton-on-Sea to the north in Essex, Herne Bay, Kent, and the Southend-on-Sea area within the narrower part of the estuary.The Thames Barrier is on the River Thames just downstream (east) of the Isle of Dogs in east London. The walls and embankments work in different ways upstream (west) or downstream of the Thames Barrier.

River Thames Free Fishing". River Thames Alliance. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010 . Retrieved 10 June 2010.

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surface water flooding from urban drainage sources, particularly where the capacity of the urban drainage system is low In the past, commercial activities on the Thames included fishing (particularly eel trapping), coppicing willows and osiers which provided wood and baskets, and the operation of watermills for flour and paper production and metal beating. These activities have largely disappeared. Upstream of the Thames Barrier, the walls and embankments protect against daily high tides. The Thames Barrier protects these areas against storm tides. We’ve based the deadlines to complete the upgrades on the latest climate change projections and the rate of sea level rise. If the projections change, we may need to set earlier deadlines. The heights that defences need to be raised to will not change, even if the deadlines move.

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