River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southern England
- Also known as: “Isis”, “Tamesis”, “Thames”, and “Thames River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coryton Power Station and London Gateway.
Coryton Power Station
Power station
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Coryton Power Station is a 732 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine gas-fired power station at Coryton, Thurrock, Essex, UK.
London Gateway
DP World London Gateway is a port within the wider Port of London, on the north bank of the River Thames in Thurrock, Essex. Opened in November 2013, the site is a fully integrated logistics facility, consisting of a semi-automated deep-sea container terminal which is on the same site as a land bank for the development of warehousing, distribution facilities, and ancillary logistics services.Coryton Refinery
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Coryton Refinery was an oil refinery in Essex, England, on the estuary of the River Thames 28 miles from central London, between Shell Haven Creek and Hole Haven Creek, which separates Canvey Island from the mainland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cliffe and Fobbing.
Cliffe
Village
Cliffe is a village in the civil parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, in the borough of Medway in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. It is on the Hoo Peninsula, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile journey along the B2000 road. Cliffe is situated 2½ miles south of River Thames.
Fobbing
Village
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Fobbing is a small village and former civil parish in Thurrock, Essex, England, and one of Thurrock's traditional parishes. It is between Basildon and Corringham, and is also close to Stanford-le-Hope. Fobbing is situated 2½ miles northwest of River Thames.
Corringham
Village
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Corringham is a town and former civil parish in the unitary authority area of Thurrock, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England, located directly next to the town of Stanford-le-Hope, about 24 miles east of London and 3 miles south of Basildon. Corringham is situated 3 miles northwest of River Thames.
River Thames
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“River Thames” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Teems”
- Amharic: “ቴምስ ወንዝ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τάμεσα”
- Arabic: “التايمز”
- Arabic: “الثيمز”
- Arabic: “نهر التايمس”
- Arabic: “نهر التمز”
- Arabic: “نهر التيمز”
- Arabic: “نهر الثايمز”
- Arabic: “نهر الثيمز”
- Aragonese: “Río Tamisa”
- Armenian: “Թեմզա”
- Asturian: “ríu Támesis”
- Asturian: “Ríu Támesis”
- Asturian: “Támesis”
- Azerbaijani: “Temza çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Temza”
- Balinese: “Tukad Thames”
- Basque: “Tamesis”
- Belarusian: “Тэмза”
- Bengali: “টেমস নদী”
- Bengali: “টেমস”
- Bengali: “টেম্স নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “टेम्स नदी”
- Bosnian: “Temza”
- Breton: “Tavoez”
- Bulgarian: “Темза”
- Burmese: “သိမ်းမြစ်”
- Catalan: “riu Tàmesi”
- Catalan: “Tàmesi”
- Cebuano: “River Thames”
- Central Bikol: “Salog Tamesis”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری تەمز”
- Chinese: “Thames Hô”
- Chinese: “泰晤士河”
- Chuvash: “Темза”
- Croatian: “Temza”
- Czech: “Temže”
- Danish: “Themsen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Royê Temza”
- Dutch: “River Thames”
- Dutch: “Theems”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر التمز”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر التيمز”
- Esperanto: “Tamizo”
- Estonian: “Thames”
- Fijian: “Uciwai Tamisi”
- Finnish: “Thames”
- French: “La Tamise”
- French: “Tamise”
- Galician: “Río Támese”
- Galician: “Río Támesis”
- Georgian: “ტემზა”
- German: “Themse”
- Greek: “Τάμεσης”
- Gujarati: “થેમ્સ”
- Hebrew: “תמזה”
- Hindi: “थेम्स नदी”
- Hungarian: “Temze”
- Icelandic: “Thames”
- Ido: “Thames”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Thames”
- Interlingua: “Tamese”
- Inuktitut: “Thames”
- Irish: “Abhainn na Tamaise”
- Irish: “An Tamais”
- Italian: “Tamigi”
- Japanese: “テムズ川”
- Javanese: “Kali Thames”
- Kazakh: “Темза”
- Kirghiz: “Темза”
- Korean: “템스강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Thames”
- Ladin: “Thames”
- Latin: “Tamesa”
- Latin: “Tamesis”
- Latvian: “Temza”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Thames”
- Lithuanian: “Temzė”
- Low German: “Thems”
- Luxembourgish: “Themse”
- Macedonian: “Темза”
- Malay: “Sungai Thames”
- Malayalam: “തേംസ്”
- Manx: “Yn Thaimish”
- Marathi: “थेम्स नदी”
- Mazanderani: “تایمز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thames Hô”
- Mingrelian: “თემზა”
- Mingrelian: “ტემზა”
- Mirandese: “Riu Tamisa”
- Mongolian: “Тэмз мөрөн”
- Narom: “Riviéthe dé Londres”
- Nepali: “थेम्स नदी”
- Northern Frisian: “Thems”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “River Thames”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Themsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Themsen”
- Norwegian: “Themsen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tamèsi”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Temes”
- Ossetian: “Темзæ”
- Panjabi: “ਥੇਮਜ਼ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “تیمز”
- Piemontese: “Tamis”
- Polish: “Tamiza”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tâmisa”
- Quechua: “Thamis Mayu”
- Romanian: “Tamisa”
- Russian: “Темза (река в Англии)”
- Russian: “Темза”
- Saterfriesisch: “Themse”
- Scots: “River Thames”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Tamais”
- Serbian: “Темза”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Temza”
- Sicilian: “Tamiggi”
- Slovak: “Temža”
- Slovenian: “Temza”
- Slovenian: “Thames”
- South Azerbaijani: “تیمز چایی”
- Spanish: “rio Tamesis”
- Spanish: “río Támesis”
- Spanish: “Río Támesis”
- Spanish: “Tamesis”
- Spanish: “Támesis”
- Sundanese: “Thames”
- Sundanese: “Walungan Thames”
- Swedish: “River Thames”
- Swedish: “Themsen”
- Swiss German: “Themse”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Tamesis”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Темза”
- Tamil: “தேம்சு ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเทมส์”
- Tibetan: “ཐེམ་ཟི་གཙང་པོ།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Themse”
- Turkish: “Thames Nehri”
- Tyap: “A̱ghyui Ta̱mit”
- Ukrainian: “Темза”
- Urdu: “دریائے ٹیمز”
- Uzbek: “Temza”
- Venetian: “Tamise”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Thames”
- Vlaams: “Thems”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Thames”
- Welsh: “Afon Tafwys”
- Western Armenian: “Թէյմզ”
- Western Frisian: “Teems”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے تھیمز”
- Wu Chinese: “泰晤士河”
- Yiddish: “טעמז”
- Yue Chinese: “泰晤士河”
- Zhuang: “Dah Thames”
- Zhuang: “Dahdaivuzswhoz”
- Zulu: “Umfula Thames”
- “टेम्स नदी”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Thames Haven and Shell Haven.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include London Gateway and Horseshoes Bay.
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