For many walkers, the idea of detouring to visit the centre of Reading might seem quite bonkers! But, you’d be surprised at what can be found other than the Reading railroad. After all, Reading Abbey was, at one time, one of the most important sites in the country: playing host to parliament and the king. […]
Route News More rain has fallen and river levels have continued to rise. As you can see from the above photo, reproduced here with kind permission from a Thames Path enthusiast, there’s even water at the source: a rare sight indeed. Currently much of the path is not be passable. So now might be a […]
Happy New Year. We hadn’t planned on issuing a newsletter so early in the year so we’ll make this one quite brief. It’s just that there’s rather a lot happening on the river right now! We’ve had a very wet Christmas and New Year with constant rain. This has left the river levels above normal […]
Route News Following a wet November, a dry, cold spell enveloped the Thames Valley and much of the rest of the country. For about ten days running, the temperature never rose above freezing. This brought beautiful frosty days with the cold air lying in the valley and the surrounding hills peaking out of the top. […]
Happy 100! Welcome to our 100th newsletter. We hope you have been enjoying them and that they have been useful. Do please give us feedback – good and bad! Route Planner Changes We have made a couple of changes to our route planner. Most of these are quite cosmetic, such as clarifying that transfers refer to […]
This morning we updated our Route Planner. Here are highlights of the changes: Basic Layout We’ve changed the basic layout. Firstly, the default version is the “Standard Route Planner” which works using drop downs. The map version is renamed “Advanced Planner” and sits alongside. Remember you can toggle back between the two. You’ll notice that […]
The Thames Path is now in its second week of Tier 2 where hotels and pubs remain open but socialising indoors is forbidden. This makes it hard to truly enjoy what the Thames Path has to offer. So we are all looking forward to normality being restored – hopefully by May. In the meantime it’s […]
Update on Latest Restrictions Waiting for the latest restrictions to be announced we were envisaging a complicated flowchart of “if you live in tier x and you wish to visit a part of the Thames Path that is in tier y, then” etc. As it turned out, it’s all rather simple. The entire Thames Path […]
The Thames cuts between Eton and Windsor. Purists, keeping to the Path, will therefore not see the best of either town. There are two ways to solve this problem: one is to spend some quality time in Windsor, perhaps by staying the night there; the other is to follow this suggested detour. The Thames Path […]
Thames Barrier Closes! It was a rare site. The Thames Barrier closed this week for only the 195th time in its 38 year history (and the first time this year). This was to prevent potential tidal flooding in London. The combination of a spring tide, low atmospheric pressure and northerly winds created potentially dangerous conditions […]
