Flats to Rent London Indirect evidence for the antiquity of the name 'Thames' is provided by a Roman potsherd found at Oxford, bearing the inscription Tamesubugus fecit (Tamesubugus made this). It is believed that Tamesubugus's name was derived from that of the river.[19]

The Thames through Oxford is often given the name the River Isis, although historically, and especially in Victorian times, Flats to Rent London gazetteers and cartographers insisted that the entire river was correctly named the River Isis from its source until Dorchester-on-Thames. Only at this point, where the river meets the River Thame and becomes the "Thame-isis" (subsequently abbreviated to Flats to Rent London Thames) should it be so-called; Ordnance Survey maps still label the Thames as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester.

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Although the Port of London remains one of the UK's Flats to Rent London three main ports, most trade has moved downstream from central London. The decline of manufacturing industry and improved sewage treatment have led to a massive clean-up since the filthy days of the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries, and aquatic life has returned to its formerly 'dead' waters. Alongside the river runs the Thames Path,Flats to Rent London providing a route for walkers and cyclists.

In the early 1980s a massive flood-control device, the Thames Barrier, Flats to Rent London was opened. It is closed several times a year to prevent water damage to London's low-lying areas upstream (as in the 1928 Thames flood for example). In the late 1990s, the 7-mile (11 km) long Jubilee River was built, which acts as a flood channel for the Thames around Maidenhead and Windsor.[14]

Flats to Rent London Origin of the name
Statue of Old Father Thames at St John's Lock

The Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Celtic name for the river, Tamesas (from *tamessa),[15] recorded in Latin as Tamesis and underlying modern Welsh Tafwys "Thames". The name probably meant "dark" and can be compared Flats to Rent London to other cognates such as Irish teimheal and Welsh tywyll "darkness" (PC *temeslos) and Middle Irish teimen "dark grey",[15] though Richard Coates[16] mentions other theories: Kenneth Jackson's[17] that it is non Indo-European (and of unknown meaning), and Peter Kitson's[18] that it is IE but pre-Celtic, and has a name indicating muddiness from a root *ta-, 'melt'.

The river's name has always been pronounced with a simple t; the Middle English spelling was typically Temese and Celtic Tamesis. The th lends an air of Greek Flats to Rent London to the name and was added during the Renaissance, possibly to reflect or support a belief that the name was derived from River Thyamis in the Epirus region of Greece, whence early Celtic tribes were erroneously thought to have migrated.