Stock Photo Image Library of River Thames from Abingdon to Sonning – Page 1

These travel photographs form part of the River Thames Image Collection and depict what I think of as the 'middle' region of the Thames stretching downstream from Oxford around Abingdon. through Appleford, Clifton Hampden, Dorchester, Wallingford, Moulsford, Goring and Streatley, Pangbourne and Reading, to Sonning.

This stretch sees the Thames transform from a broad passage busy with every sort of pleasure craft and marked by Reading's gleaming businesses parks into a more gentle, rural and curving river. Cattle and sheep peer at you from their grassy banks, falcons circle overhead, narrowboats tuck into the reedy banks of pastures at tea time. This is where the Thames starts to appear timeless. On sunny days it begins to induce a certan laziness in the traveller and an inclination towards muse. This is where some of the best river literature has been inspired, such as Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Grahame lived for many years at Church Cottage in Pangbourne. Jerome K Jerome wrote chunks of his delightfully hilarious Three Men in a Boat while lodging at the Barley Mow in Clifton Hampden.

The photographs here represent a small portion of images from this stretch of the River Thames: motor cruisers, narrowboats, boathouses, an inflatible kayak on tour, church interior details such as stained glass and medieval painted ceiling, Pangbourne's town 'welcome' sign and a sign marking the original junction of the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal with the Thames — officially closed in 1914, but in the long process of being restored.

Please contact me if you need stock images of other features of this section of the Thames and its towns and villages.

 

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River Thames Image - Motor Cruiser Beneath Brunel's Moulsford Bridge

3U130602

River Thames Image - Swan, Reeds, Moving Sky at Moulsford

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Narrowboat in Morning Mist, River Thames

3U131629

Traditional Narrowboat on River Thames

3U131727

French Horn Luxury Hotel, River Thames

3K130732

Elegant Boathouse, River Thames

3G130418

Woman with Narrowboat Barge Pole

3P131721

Hidden Cruiser Narrowboat, River Thames

3U131735

French Horn Luxury Hotel, River Thames

3K130736

Elegant Boathouse, River Thames

3K090207

Hire Narrowboat, River Thames

3U131625

Woman at Tiller of Narrowboat, River Thames

3P131717

River Thames Stock Image Collection: Henley and Henley Regatta, including pictures of rowing, rowers, traditional and classic wooden boats, fireworks - page 1
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Cottage in Mist, River Thames

3K131627

River Thames Image - Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal Junction Sign

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River Thames Image - Clifton Hampden Church Stained Glass

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River Thames Image - Painted Ceiling of St Helen's Church, Abingdon

3R090218

Liveaboard Narrowboat on River Thames

3U131726

Sign Saying River Thames Closed

3S130710

River Thames Image - Loaded Inflatable Kayak

3U130422

River Thames Image - Loaded Inflatable Kayak

3U130423

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