CONTENTS

BOOK I

LONDON RIVER

CHAPTERPAGE
Introduction: The River and its Valley [1]
I.London River[15]
II.The Estuary and its Towns[31]
III. The Medway and its Towns[40]
IV.Gravesend and Tilbury[52]
V.The Marshes[64]
VI.Woolwich[77]
VII.Greenwich[87]
VIII.The Port and the Docks[101]
BOOK II
THE GREAT CITY WHICH THE RIVER MADE
I.How the River Founded the City[123]
II.How the City Grew (Roman Days)[130]
III. How the City Grew (Saxon Days)[137]
IV.How the City Grew (Norman Days)[143]
V.The River’s First Bridge[147]
VI.How the City Grew (In the Middle Ages)[157]
VII.The Tower of London [166]
VIII.How Fire Destroyed What the River Had Made[181]
IX.The Riverside and Its Palaces[193]
X.Royal Westminster—the Abbey[209]
XI.Royal Westminster—the Houses of Parliament [220]
XII.The Riverside of to-day[227]
BOOK III
THE UPPER RIVER
I.Stripling Thames[237]
II.Oxford[246]
III. Abingdon, Wallingford, and the Goring Gap[263]
IV.Reading[271]
V.Holiday Thames—henley to Maidenhead[279]
VI. Windsor[285]
VII.Eton College [298]
VIII.Hampton Court[305]
IX.Kingston[317]
X.Richmond[326]
XI.Richmond to Westminster [332]
Index [349]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BOOK I

LONDON RIVER

Chart of the Thames from the Source to Windsor Front end papers
Port of London Offices[Frontispiece]
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How the Thames Was Made[4]
The Birth of the River[8]
Mouth of the Thames[16]
The Nore Lightship[17]
Sheerness[20]
Training Ships Off Greenhithe[22]
London’s Giant Gateway[25]
The Pool[27]
A Thames-side Wharf[29]
Rochester Castle[48]
Rochester Cathedral[50]
Gravesend[54]
A River-side Cement Works[56]
Tilbury Fort[58]
Bugsby’s Reach[69]
Woolwich[79]
Greenwich Park[88]
Greenwich Hospital[94]
The Royal Observatory[98]
Dockland[103]
Dockhead, Bermondsey[107]
Wapping and Limehouse[109]
A Giant Liner[117]
BOOK II
THE GREAT CITY WHICH THE RIVER MADE
The Thames at Lambeth, from the Air[120], [121]
The London County Hall [122]
Roman London (Plan)[133]
Bastion of Roman Wall, Cripplegate Churchyard[135]
The Conqueror’s March on London (Plan)[143]
Old London Bridge[148]
An Arch of Old London Bridge [150]
Chapel of St. Thomas Becket on the Bridge[152]
London Bridge in Modern Times[155]
Baynard’s Castle Before the Great Fire[160]
Ground Plan of the Tower[168]
Traitor’s Gate[178]
The Monument [182]
Old St. Paul’s (a.d. 1500)[189]
The Fleet River at Blackfriars (a.d. 1760)[194]
Old Temple Bar, Fleet Street[201]
The Strand from the Thames (Sixteenth Century)[202], [203]
The Water-gate of York House[206]
The Banqueting Hall, Whitehall [208]
The River at Thorney Island (Plan)[210]
Henry Vii.’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey[214]
Westminster Abbey [216]
The Houses of Parliament[221]
St. Paul’s from the South End of Southwark Bridge[231]
BOOK III
THE UPPER RIVER
The Castle Keep, Oxford[236]
Thames Head[238]
Lechlade from the First Lock[240]
Kelmscott Manor[242]
Magdalen Tower, Oxford[252]
Abingdon[264]
The Gatehouse, Reading Abbey [273]
Sonning[280]
Henley[281]
Diagram of the Thames Valley Terraces[283]
Windsor Castle[286]
Eton College[299]
Hampton Court, Garden Front[306]
Kingston[322]
Teddington Weir[324]
Richmond Hill from Petersham Meadows[327]
From the Terrace, Richmond[330]
Kew Gardens[334]
Putney to Mortlake (Championship Course)[338]
Fulham Palace[340]
Ranelagh[341]
The Power-Station, Chelsea [345]
The Lollards’ Tower, Lambeth Palace[346]
Chart of the Thames from Windsor to the Nore[Back end-papers]