25 September 2015 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
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River Thames with Hampton Church Shakespeare’s Temple and Garrick’s Villa © Motmit
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The River Thames is a major river flowing through southern England. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including
Oxford ,
Reading ,
Henley-on-Thames ,
Windsor ,
Kingston upon Thames and
Richmond .
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9 December 2014 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
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The Coach & Horses pub © geograph.org.uk – Bill Nicholls/cc-by-sa-2.0
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Wallingford is a market town and civil parish in the upper
Thames Valley in England. Until 1974 it was in
Berkshire , but was
transferred to Oxfordshire in that year. The town’s royal but mostly ruined
Wallingford Castle held high status in the early medieval period as a regular royal residence until the
Black Death hit the town badly in 1349.
Empress Matilda retreated here for the final time from
Oxford Castle in 1141. The castle declined subsequently, much stone being removed to renovate
Windsor Castle instead. Nonetheless the town’s
Priory produced two of the greatest minds of the age, the mathematician
Richard of Wallingford and the chronicler
John of Wallingford .
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