{"id":20364,"date":"2026-08-19T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20364"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:32:13","slug":"thames-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thames-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Thames River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A traditional Ganga Aarti, a ritual associated with the ghats of Varanasi, Haridwar, and Rishikesh, will be held on the banks of the River Thames in London in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Thames River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>346-km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> river that flows through <\/span><b>southern England.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> longest river in England<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>second longest in the United Kingdom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, right after the River Severn.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Origin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Its <\/span><b>source <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is at <\/span><b>Thames Head<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, near Kemble in the Cotswold Hills, Gloucestershire County.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>flows into the North Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> via the <\/span><b>Thames Estuary.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Nore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the<\/span><b> sandbank that marks <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><b> mouth of the Thames Estuary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the confluence point of the Thames and the North Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is split into <\/span><b>two sections, tidal and non-tidal.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>tidal par<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t, which is <\/span><b>affected by the North Sea\u2019s tides<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, runs for 109 km <\/span><b>from the mouth of the river <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to Teddington Lock in <\/span><b>west London.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The non-tidal section is 237 km long from Teddington Lock to the source of the river.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Main Tributaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Lea, Leach, Churn, Coln, Windrush, Kennet, Evenlode, Ock, and Loddon.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Significance:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>People <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have <\/span><b>lived in the Thames Valley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for<\/span><b> thousands of years.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before railways and good roads were built, the Thames was the area\u2019s <\/span><b>main trade route.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time <\/span><b>many industrie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s were set up along the banks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river passes numerous <\/span><b>popular cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along its way, such as <\/span><b>London, Reading, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hendley-on-Thomas, <\/span><b>Windsor, and Oxford,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where it is also called the Isis River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides <\/span><b>two-thirds of London\u2019s drinking water.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 16 bridges that cross the River Thames in Greater London alone, most prominently the <\/span><b>Golden Jubilee Bridges<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Millennium Bridges <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for pedestrians.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inshorts.com\/en\/amp_news\/ganga-aarti-to-be-held-at-thames-river-in-london-1787063566526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thames River is a 346-km river that flows through southern England. 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