Administrator - Helen Batten.
Tel: 01491 612456
email:
Links
- The Environment Agency
- The Thames Tideway
- The River and Rowing Museum
- Floating Down the River
- Thames Path On Line Guide
- The Marlow Society
- The River Thames Guide
- The Inland Waterways Assoc
- The Cotswold Canal Trust
- Stolen Boats
- The River Centre
- "Thames Smooth Waters"
- Thames Path National Trail
- The River Club
- Maidenhead Waterways
- "To the River"
- SS Richard Montgomery
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The Thames
is one of the World's most fascinating,
exciting, mysterious and beautiful rivers. From source to sea its 200-plus
miles flow from bubbling springs in Gloucestershire to the site of the
old London Bridge, then on to the imposing, formidable tidal estuary to
the east of London.
It's a dynamic entity and there are many challenges that the River Thames Society - a registered charity founded in 1962 - currently seeks to address, including:
- The loss of waterside boat yards and related facilities to new and
exclusive residential developments
- the multi- million challenge facing the Environment Agency who are
striving to overcome the arrears of maintenance on lock and associated
navigation structures
- the need to monitor new developments, particularly on the tideway
in order to ensure the maintenance and improvement of facilities for
those who wish to gain access to and from the river
- and the seaward limits of the Thames Gateway project.
If you are excited by these challenges and you would you like to:
- help preserve and extend the amenity value of the Thames and encourage
its use in a sustainable manner?
- protect the natural beauty of the Thames and encourage nature conservation?
- support the protection of land and buildings of historical and architectural
interest adjacent to the river?
- join an organisation that represents your interests the length of the river, from the Cotswolds to the sea, and works with other river-based organisations (see Links, left) to achieve its objectives.
If the answer is YES to one or more of the above then the River Thames Society is for you then visit our membership page
BLUE SWAN CLUB - Help the Society achieve it's aims by becoming a member. For further information about the club, see Membership page or click here - application form.
CAMPAIGNS
STOP THE SALE OF LOCK KEEPERS' HOUSES! This campaign was called for by the AGM in April 2008 and all members were encouraged to write to their MPs. The decision on the future of the locks in question has now been deferred until January 2009. If you wish to join this campaign, please Click here to see our suggested letter. Click here to see the Chairman's letter to The Times, printed 13.5.08.