Thames River

The most famous river in the UK, the Thames is most well-known for running through London.


But because it?s in a massively populated part of England, it also runs through lots of other built-up places, including Oxford, Abingdon, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Windsor, and Kingston upon Thames. It prefers metropolises to rural regions, like a character from Sex and the City.


Just like the Severn River, you can explore pretty much all of the Thames River on foot, by following the entire length of the Thames Path, another brilliant waymarked trail. It?s much more famous than the Severn Way, but it?s a little shorter. The whole thing measures in at 184 miles (294km).