- Abingdon, 263-5
- Alfred, King, 141, 249
- All Hallows, Barking, 75
- Ancient Britons, 120-6
- Arnold, Matthew, 261
- Arthur, King, 287
- Barking, 71-6
- Abbey, 72-5
- Sewage Works, 75-6
- Barnes, 338-9
- Battersea, 340, 347
- Baynards Castle, 160
- Becket, Thomas, 145, 151, 274
- Benfleet, 39
- Besant, Sir Walter, 162-3, 184
- Big Ben, 225
- Billingsgate, 101-2
- Black Death, 161
- Blackfriars, 195-7
- Blackwall, 112-3
- Tunnel, 113
- Boatrace, Universities, 259, 338
- Boleyn, Anne, 175-7, 310-11
- Brentford, 336
- Bridges, 205, 230, 232, 242
- Buckingham Palace, 208
- Bushey Park, 316
- Canning Town, 114
- Canute, 141-2
- Canvey Island, 38-9
- Cement, 49, 55-6
- Chatham, 46-7
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, 162, 294
- Chelsea, 341, 343-4, 347
- Cherwell, 257-8
- Chilterns, 10, 268-70
- Cholsey, 284
- Churn, River, 240
- Cleopatra’s Needle, 228
- Cliveden Woods, 282-3
- Coal, 114-5, 164-5
- Coldharbour Palace, 160
- Colne, River, 240
- Cookham, 279
- Cooling Castle, 52-3
- County Hall, 232-3
- Cremorne Gardens, 343
- Cricklade, 240
- Crosby Hall, 159
- Culham, 284
- Cumnor, 243
- Customs Officers, 115-6
- Dagenham Breach, 70
- Dagenham Dock, 71
- Marshes, 68-71
- Danes, 18, 33, 140-1
- Defoe, Daniel, 36, 183-4
- Dene-holes at Grays, 67-8
- De Ruyter, 41
- Dickens, Charles, 51, 52
- Dockland, 24-6
- Docks: Blackwall, 112-3
- East India, 104
- Execution, 102, 110
- London, 110-1
- Millwall, 112
- Regent’s Canal, 111
- Royal Albert, 113-4
- St. Katherine’s, 102, 105
- St. Saviour’s, 102, 108
- Surrey Commercial, 112
- Victoria, 113
- West India, 112
- “Don Saltero,” 343
- Dorchester, 265-6
- Duke of Buckingham, 205
- Dumouriez, 53
- Durham Palace, 207
- Dutch in the Medway, 42-5
- Eastchurch, 35
- East Ham, 113-4
- East India Docks, 104
- Edward the Confessor, 211
- Eleanor of Provence, 153, 223
- Embankment, The, 227-8
- Estuary, The, 16-19, 31-39
- defence of, 52
- Eton College, 298-304
- Evelyn, John, 41, 61-2, 186-90
- Evenlode, River, 243
- Execution Dock, 110-1
- Fire of London, the Great, 159
- FitzStephen, 145-7
- Flamsteed, 99
- Fleet River, 193-5
- Street, 195
- Fobbing, 60
- Fort Grain, 35
- Franklin, Sir John, 66
- Frindsbury, 49
- Fulham, 339
- Godstow, 243
- Goring Gap, 267-8
- Gravesend, 52-6
- proposed dam, 62-3
- Grays, 67
- Great Marlow, 281-2
- Greenhithe, 21, 66
- Greenwich, 87-100
- Hospital, 92-7
- Ministerial dinners at, 91
- Observatory, 98-100
- Royal births at, 89
- Grey, Lady Jane, 175
- Hakluyt, 90-1
- Halley, 100
- Hampton Court, 305-16
- Harold, King, 143, 288
- Henley, 280-1
- Holiday Thames, 279-284
- Houses of Parliament, 220-6
- Howard, Katherine, 175-7
- “Humphrey Clinker,” 342
- Humphrey, Duke, 88
- Hungerford House, 206
- Iffley, 262
- Isis, 239, 259
- Isle of Dogs, 112
- Grain, 35
- Isleworth, 332
- Jack Straw, 60
- John Ball, 60
- Jones, Inigo, 92
- Kelmscott, 241
- Kennet, River, 277
- Kew Gardens, 333-5
- Palace, 335
- Kingston, 317-25
- Knights of the Garter, 296-7
- Knights Templar, 199-202
- Lambeth, 344-7
- Lechlade, 239
- Legal quays, 102
- Limehouse, 111-2
- Basin, 111
- Reach, Medway, 49
- Llyndin Hill, 125, 130
- London, a city of palaces, 157
- and the Danes, 140-2
- Fire of, 181-192
- fires in, 25, 151, 181
- fogs, 23
- foundation of, 123-9
- Friars in, 195-8
- Hospitals, 233
- in Norman days, 143-6
- in Middle Ages, 157-65
- in Roman days, 130-6
- in Saxon days, 137-40
- Plague in, 183-4
- reasons for position of, 126-9
- remains of Roman Wall, 133-6
- Tower of, 166-80
- London Bridge, 147-156
- a great procession on, 155
- a tournament on, 154
- its dangers, 151
- its relation to the City, 128-9
- L.C.C. County Hall, 232
- London Dock, 110-1
- London Stone, Yantlet Creek, 35
- Lower Reaches, 19-23
- Macfarlane, Charles, 42
- Maidenhead, 46
- Marshes on banks, 16, 64-76
- Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 171-2
- Matilda, Empress, 170-2
- Maud of Boulogne, 105, 171
- Medway, River, 40-51
- Merton, Walter de, 251
- Millwall Dock, 112
- Minster-in-Sheppey, 32
- Monument, The, 181-2
- Morris, William, 241-2
- Mortlake, 338
- New Bridge, 242
- Nore Lightship, 15, 118
- Northfleet, 65-6
- Northumberland House, 207
- Old Windsor, 287
- Oxford, 246-262
- Bodleian Library, 255
- Castle, 256
- Colleges, 251-5
- founding of the University, 249-51
- its origin, 247-8
- Tom Tower, 254
- Pangbourne, 279
- Peasants’ Revolt, 60
- Pepys, Samuel, 34, 77, 186
- Peter of Colechurch, 148
- Pett, Peter, 47
- Pilots, 55
- Placentia, Palace of, 89
- Plague, the Great, 183-4
- Pool, The, 26-8
- Port Meadow, 243
- Port of London, 23-6, 101-19
- Authority, 15, 118-19
- Port Victoria, 35
- Princes in Tower, 171
- Purfleet, 68
- Putney, 338-9
- Queenborough, 35
- Queenhithe, 101
- Radley, 284
- Ranelagh Gardens, 343
- Reading, 271-8
- Abbey, 272-6
- and the Civil War, 275
- modern, 277-8
- Regent’s Canal Dock, 111
- Richmond, 326-31
- River police, 116-8
- Rochester, 49-51
- Roding, River, 71-2
- Roman remains in London, 132-5
- Rosherville Gardens, 65
- Rotherhithe, 113
- Royal Albert Dock, 113-4
- Victoria Dock, 113-4
- Savoy Palace, 204-5
- Saxon Kings crowned at Kingston, 319-20
- “Scholar Gypsy,” 261-2
- Scotland Yard, 207
- Shadwell, 105
- Sheen, 327
- Sheerness, 34
- Sheppey, 31-3
- Shoeburyness, 37-8
- Shooter’s Hill, 77-9
- Silvertown, 114
- Sion House, 332
- Somerset House, 203
- Sonning, 279-80
- Southend, 36-7
- St. James’s Park, 207
- St. Katherine’s Dock, 102, 105
- St. Paul’s Cathedral, 124, 188, 191, 211
- St. Saviour’s Dock, 102, 108
- St. Thomas’s Hospital, 233
- Staple Inn, 159
- Stephen, King, 170, 256, 267
- Stow, 161, 179
- Strand, The, 193
- Streatley, 268
- “Stripling Thames,” 237-45
- Stroud, 49
- Surrey Commercial Dock, 112
- Swale, The, 41
- Tea, 106
- Teddington, 325
- Temple Bar, 232
- Church, 201
- Gardens, 202
- Temple, The, 199-203
- Thame, River, 265
- Thames Haven, 68
- Thames Head, 237
- Thames River, early tributaries of, 239
- geology of, 267-70
- locks on, 243-5
- material brought down by, 64-5
- origin of, 2-5
- reasons for importance, 11-14
- terraces of bed, 283-4
- the basin of, 7-10
- the sources, 237-9
- tunnels under, 113
- Thorney Island, 130, 211-2
- Tilbury, 57-63
- Docks, 71, 104
- Fort, 57
- Elizabeth at, 57-8
- Tower Bridge, 231
- Tower of London, 166-80
- Trewsbury Mead, 237-9
- Twickenham, 325
- Upnor Castle, 4
- Vale of the White Horse, 241
- Vauxhall Gardens, 341-3
- Wallingford, 144, 266-7
- Wandle, River, 340
- Wandsworth, 339
- Wapping, 108-10
- Old Stairs, 108-10
- Watling Street, 126, 130, 132, 144
- Wat Tyler, 60, 156, 204
- Waynflete, William, 299
- West Ham, 113-4
- West India Dock, 104, 112
- Westminster, 209-226
- the founding of, 210
- Westminster Abbey, 212-9
- Chapter House, 218
- Confessor’s Chapel, 213
- founding of, 212
- Henry VII. Chapel, 215
- Poets’ Corner, 215
- Remains of Old Abbey, 213
- Tomb of Unknown Warrior, 218
- Westminster Hall, 222
- Palace, 220
- Whitefriars, 197-9
- Whitehall Palace, 207-8
- Whittington, Dick, 165
- Widths of the Thames, 15, 26
- William and Mary, 92, 309
- William the Conqueror, 73, 143, 256, 266, 285, 288
- Windrush, River, 242
- Windsor, 285-304
- growth of Castle, 288-95
- origin of, 287
- Round Tower, 297
- St. George’s Chapel, 296
- Wolsey, Cardinal, 207, 253, 305
- Woolwich, 77-86
- Arsenal, 81-6
- Dockyard, 80-1
- Wren, Sir Christopher, 92, 228, 309, 312
- Wykeham, William, 35, 293, 298
- Yantlet Creek, 35
- York House, 205
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