MRP: The River of Thames

The River of Thames

Editorial history

01/01/12, CSG: Created page

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Suggested links

See Blackwall
See Gravesend
See Greenwich
See Limehouse
See Redrith
See Woolwich

See The River Tapti

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To do

(1) Clarify sourcing of the Cany (1814) map images

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Images

River of Thames at London Bridge, London Magazine, 1743

North Kent and River of Thames, Detail from Kent, Cany, 1814

Kent, Cany, 1814

Middlesex, Robert Morden, 1704

Essex, Robert Morden, 1704

Image credits and copyright information

(1) Front cover, London magazine and monthly intelligencer (London, 1743)
- Out of copyright magazine and image
- Sourced from Google free E-Book edition

(2) Detail of north Kent and river of Thames from 'Kent,' Cany (XXXX, 1814)
- Out of copyright map
- Sourced from XXXX

(3) 'Kent,' Cany (XXXX, 1814)
- Out of copyright map
- Sourced from XXXX

(4) Morden, Robert, 'Middlesex,' Plate, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704), betw. pp. 45 & 46
- Out of copyright magazine and image
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

(5) Morden, Robert, 'Essey,' Plate, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704), betw. pp. 24 & 25
- Out of copyright magazine and image
- Sourced from Internet Archive edition

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Notes

Description of River Thames, Robert Pocock, 18XX

"Monday, 27th. [YEAR?] Went from Chatham by coach to (Upper Blue Bell) and had from the top of the house an extensive view, as we saw the road (plainly) going up Shooter's Hill (about twenty-four miles distant), and Lord Petrels house, near Brentwood, Essex (thirty miles off), the towns of Southend and Leigh in Essex (about twenty-five miles), the town of Sheerness with Minster in Sheppy, the Nore and ships sailing down the Swin; to the south Cox's Heath; and south-west a fine prospect of a campaign valley with the hills of Surrey....Slept at the Swan"

The Hope, past Gravesend, leaving the Thames

The Hope is the first reach after Gravesend reach as a ship makes its way out of the Thames

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Suggested image sources

Small scale

'Fig. 5: A chart of the estuary of the River Thames by John Seller based on the survey by Sir Jonas Moore', in N.J.W.Thrower (ed.), The Compleat plattmaker: essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1978), p. 144

Thames at London

'A General View of the City of London and the River Thames,' plate 2 from 'Views of London', 1794, a painting by Thomas Bowles

General

Farrington, J, A history of the river Thames (XXXX, 1810)
- Note: "John and Joseph Boydell's landmark in English topography, A History of the River Thames. Engraved by Stadler, J. C."
- Illustrations of interest include:

• 'Rochester bridge, and castle'
• 'Maidstone'

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Suggested secondary sources

Chandler, John, The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, pts. 1-3, (London, 1809)

XXXX, XXXX, A History of the River Thames (XXXX, 1795)