With finds on the foreshore to the west of the Thames Barrier dating back to 4500BC, the PLA says it regulates searches on its own land alongside the Crown Estate's. Listen to the best of BBC ...

The River Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics for any river in the world. Scientists have estimated that 94,000 microplastics per second flow down the river in places.

Some areas in our wonderful county have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. But some have sadly been lost and ...

So a lot of money is spent on flood defences to keep people and their houses safe, like the barrier at the River Thames mouth. What river is nearest to where you live? Where does it start?

The Thames Path walk follows the River Thames and is known to be the ... starts from Kemble and takes you all the way to the Thames Barrier. At 185 miles, it can take anywhere between 10 to ...

Royal Wharf Pier is a new riverboat terminal on the Thames, located near London City Airport and the Thames Barrier ... unique views up and down the river. Beyond, a gangway leads to the floating ...

"We have not ‘banned’ swimming over the 95 miles of river that we cover. From Teddington Lock to Putney and from Crossness (roughly the Thames Barrier) to the North Sea there are no explicit ...