Thames (disambiguation)

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The Thames is a river in southern England, including the capital, London.

Thames may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

  • Thames Chase, a community forest in east London
  • Thames Estuary, estuary of the River Thames and River Medway
  • Thames (Barking and Dagenham ward), a local government ward in London
  • Thames (Reading ward), a local government ward in the Borough of Reading

New Zealand

  • Firth of Thames, a bay in the North Island
  • Thames (New Zealand electorate)
  • Thames, New Zealand, a town
    • Thames High School
  • Thames River (New Zealand), former name of the Waihou River

Other places

Transportation

  • HMS Thames, several warships of the Royal Navy
  • HMT Thames (1938), a rescue tugboat in the British Royal Navy
  • The Thames (steamship), British exploration ship lost in Siberia
  • Thames (1818 ship), an 1818 East Indiaman under a license from the British East India Company
  • Thames Trader, former British Ford lorry model brand name
  • Thames, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, renamed the Worcester in 1895
  • Thames-class lifeboat, class of lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) between 1974 and 1997

People

  • Eric Thames (born 1986), American baseball player
  • Marcus Thames (born 1977), former American baseball player
  • Mason Thames (born 2007), American child actor
  • José Ignacio Thames (1762–1832), Argentine statesman and priest

Other uses

  • Battle of the Thames, part of the War of 1812
  • South Thames College, further education college in south west London
  • Thames (production company), a British television production company
  • Thames Water, London water utility
  • Thames Television, former TV broadcaster and production company
  • Thames A.F.C., former London football club
  • Thames House, headquarters of the British MI5 organization
  • Thames Rowing Club, rowing club using the River Thames in Putney, London

See also

  • Thame, Oxfordshire, England
  • River Thame, a tributary of the River Thames
  • The Isis, alternative name for the River Thames near Oxford
  • All pages with titles beginning with Thames
Topics referred to by the same term
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